Principal Software Engineer, Containers is open at Chainguard in United States - Remote. The posting gives a salary of $229K - $258K. Posted on Oct 16, 2026, and still on Chainguard’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
, in a nutshell Chainguard Containers is our core product, and this team builds it. As Principal Software Engineer in Container Product Engineering you will be the most senior individual contributor on a team of about fifteen engineers, setting the technical direction for the product and leading its largest, most consequential projects from idea to customer. Chainguard is growing explosively. Every line of code is…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Chainguard’s careers page.
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