Staff Software Engineer

Job Summary

Focused on the .NET ecosystem, the full-time Staff Software Engineer will own the architecture and direction for .NET infrastructure, designing automated build and packaging pipelines while working remotely to support Chainguard Libraries.

Key responsibilities

• Own architecture and direction for secure, reproducible build, test, and distribution workflows for .NET libraries and SDKs
• Design and maintain automation for building, updating, validating, and publishing .NET artifacts, including vulnerability scanning and remediation
• Build internal developer tools to improve the processes of building and maintaining .NET packages at scale

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in the .NET ecosystem (C# or similar) focusing on build systems, packaging, or developer tooling
• Proven experience with MSBuild extensions, NuGet tooling, CI/CD automation, or internal frameworks/tools for .NET
• Deep familiarity with building, publishing, and consuming in the .NET ecosystem, including multi-project builds and dependency graphs
• Strong background in managing large codebases or mono-repos and resolving dependency and build failures in production
• Proficiency in Go for build orchestration tooling and experience with Terraform for managing infrastructure as code