Senior Software Engineer (Experience)

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. <br><br>Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. <br><br>Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.</p></div><h4><strong>The role, in a nutshell:</strong></h4> <p>We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to help build and scale our Libraries products, a core part of Chainguard’s mission to secure the software supply chain.</p> <p>This role sits within the Experience team, the frontline for all new product offerings. The team operates at a rapid pace, launching and iterating on multiple new products each year. You’ll play a key role in taking products from 0→1 and scaling them to thousands of users, with a strong focus on performance, usability, and developer experience.</p> <p>You’ll own critical areas of the Libraries product, building high-performance interfaces that handle large-scale data while working closely with backend engineers and product partners.</p> <h3><strong> </strong><strong>What you’ll do:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own and build key parts of the Libraries product UI</li> <li>Design and implement high-performance web applications that handle large datasets (millions of packages, versions, and dependencies)</li> <li>Partner closely with backend, product, and design to deliver end-to-end features</li> <li>Build intuitive workflows that make secure software consumption frictionless for developers</li> <li>Contribute to 0→1 product development, rapidly iterating and shipping new features</li> <li>Leverage AI-driven workflows to accelerate development and improve product capabilities</li> <li>Help shape how developers interact with and trust software supply chains</li> </ul> <h3><strong> </strong><strong>What we’re looking for:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>8+ years of experience building modern web applications at scale</li> <li>Deep expertise in:</li> <ul> <li>React</li> <li>Material UI (or similar component systems)</li> <li>GraphQL</li> </ul> <li>Experience building high-performance UIs that manage large, complex datasets</li> <li>Strong product ownership mindset. You can take a problem space and run with it</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Experience working with modern frontend infrastructure (e.g., Vercel or similar)</li> <li>Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude, Copilot, or similar)</li> <li>Experience building or integrating AI-driven product features or workflows</li> <li>Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Nice to Have</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Experience with developer tools, package ecosystems, or registries</li> <li>Exposure to software supply chain security or infrastructure products</li> <li>Experience building data-heavy or analytics-driven interfaces</li> <li>Background in monorepos or large-scale dependency systems</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Base Salary Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$157,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$184,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><h3>About Us</h3> <p>We live and breathe our company values:</p> <ul> <li>We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.</li> <li>We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.</li> <li>We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.</li> <li>We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.</li> </ul> <p>A few of the benefits we offer:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Flexible & Remote-First Culture:</strong> Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.</li> <li><strong>Our Approach to Equity:</strong> Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).</li> <li><strong>100% Covered Health Insurance:</strong> We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.</li> <li><strong>∞ Flexible Time Off:</strong> Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.</li> <li><strong>18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave:</strong> We offer 18 weeks…