Jobs at Chainguard

Sell Chainguard's secure open-source software to SMB customers in the Central territory. Build pipeline from inbound/outbound leads, forecast and hit quota, manage opportunities in CRM, collaborate with product/support/SE teams, and travel to client sites as needed. Evangelize product value, understand competitors, and work cross-functionally to close deals.

As an intern at Chainguard, you'll gain hands-on experience through mentorship, work on real projects, and engage in professional development opportunities.

Enable and scale partner ecosystems by building technical champions, designing integrations and cloud-native architectures, developing partner assets (reference architectures, demos, playbooks), co-creating joint solutions, and supporting partner-led sales and adoption with up to 50% travel.

Build and operate backend systems and APIs (Go, REST/gRPC) for entitlements, policies, and customer onboarding. Lead cross-team integrations, extend AI features into customer experiences, own features end-to-end, mentor engineers, and drive a product-focused roadmap with iterative delivery.

Own end-to-end commission calculation, validation, reporting, and payout; design and optimize compensation plans (accelerators, gates, multipliers); manage global plans and mega-deal structures; mentor a Senior Financial Analyst; build scalable processes, controls, and infrastructure to reduce commission pay rate and support growth.

Own and operationalize Chainguard's commissions function: calculate, validate, and report payouts; design and advise on compensation plans (accelerators, gates, multipliers, mega-deal structures); manage global plan types; mentor a Senior Financial Analyst; and build scalable processes, documentation, controls, and infrastructure to support growth and reduce commission pay rate toward target benchmarks.

Lead Chainguard's vulnerability pipeline: measure, disclose, and report thousands of novel vulnerabilities; run CNA/CVE assignments; coordinate embargoes with customers and maintainers; automate large-scale pipelines; represent Chainguard with standards bodies and AI model vendors to shape disclosure practices.

Lead product marketing for Chainguard Repository, managing launches, GTM strategy, and growth initiatives. Develop positioning, messaging, technical content, and enablement for sales and engineering. Translate malware and maintainer-behavior findings into credible narratives, collaborate across product, security, demand generation, and corporate marketing, and support roadmap and strategy communications.

Own partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline and revenue across assigned VARs and RSIs. Drive joint prospecting, co-selling, partner enablement, recruitment, joint business planning, and regional demand generation. Manage partner opportunities in SFDC, track readiness metrics, and collaborate cross-functionally to accelerate deal velocity, improve attach rates, and ensure forecast accuracy.

Lead technical strategy to scale a multi-ecosystem libraries platform: generalize package indexing, build orchestration, and remediation automation from CVE detection to verified release. Drive agentic/AI-driven patch generation, set platform architecture and SLOs, mentor senior engineers, own incident response, and get hands-on resolving toolchain, compiler, and packaging failures for new ecosystems (.NET, Go, Rust).

Lead architecture and implementation of Chainguard Repository: design, build, and operate high-availability backend services in Go that serve package registries and APIs; improve scalability, reliability, observability, and load testing; drive technical decisions, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers.

The role involves driving enterprise account strategy, crafting personalized outbound outreach, qualifying opportunities, and collaborating with AEs to build pipeline.

Manage and grow Chainguard's international IP portfolio, lead enforcement actions, advise engineering and product teams on open source licensing and product terms, draft and review terms of service and partner agreements, and build scalable IP processes and templates as the function expands.

Serve as the technical lead for enterprise sales: qualify prospects, run demos, POVs/POCs, respond to RFPs/RFIs, partner with sales and engineering, and secure new logos while growing existing accounts.

The Enterprise Business Development Representative will prospect, qualify leads, and set appointments to support the sales team, focusing on cybersecurity solutions.

The Senior Customer Success Manager will lead customer onboarding and advocate for customer needs, ensuring successful engagement and adoption of the product.

Own and execute global payroll operations and analytics: build pre-payroll audit reporting, run end-to-end US payroll cycles, manage payroll inputs and EIB uploads in Workday, coordinate with global payroll vendors and tax cases (OSV), investigate discrepancies, maintain payroll data, and improve payroll workflows and automation.

Manage and execute territory sales plans in the Southeast, build relationships with decision makers, qualify and advance inbound/outbound leads, forecast and hit quota, manage opportunities in CRM, collaborate with product/support/sales engineering, and travel to customers as needed.

Drive territory sales by qualifying leads, evangelizing Chainguard solutions, managing pipeline and CRM, forecasting and exceeding quota, collaborating with product and sales engineering, and traveling to customer sites as needed.

The Senior Manager of Customer Success Management will mentor a team, drive customer engagement, improve retention, and collaborate with teams to execute strategies for Enterprise customers.