Senior Software Engineer (Open Source)

We are a small and highly productive engineering team that thrives on delivering user-friendly solutions to complex problems in the supply chain security space. We’re looking for software engineers that have the curiosity, determination, and flexibility that only a fast-paced startup can feed. Anchore's open-source team is responsible for inventing, implementing, and supporting a collection of tools for modern DevSecOps engineers to use directly in their automated software supply chain pipelines. We strive to build user-friendly developer and operations tooling that are easy to understand and support our shift-left approach of security into the development process.

What you can expect to be doing

• Writing clean, robust, and performant code primarily in Go for implementing our open-source supply chain security tools and integrations
• Creating tests at all levels, from unit to acceptance
• Participating actively in code reviews, design discussions, and paired programming with team members
• Responding promptly and thoughtfully to community contributions like PRs, bug reports, and enhancement requests
• Engaging with the user community—via GitHub, our community meetings, meetups, community Slack groups, etc.—in order to build our community, better understand our users, and promote our projects
• Contributing back to the open-source projects we depend on for our tools
• Writing clear documentation for your features and ensuring users can easily understand the features you’ve built

What you'll need to bring

• Experience participating in open-source communities
• 3+ years of experience developing in Go
• 6+ years of experience in a professional software development building tools or systems in Go or a similar language (e.g. C/C++, C#, Java/Scala, Rust)
• An understanding of how to write code that’s expressive and simplified
• Ability to learn and understand new concepts and technologies quickly and be able to use them effectively
• Great coding fundamentals, including design patterns, modularity, testing, and performance
• Capacity to work well with all kinds of people
• Enthusiasm for learning from teammates of all experience levels
• Great verbal and written technical communication skills in English
• Experience building container images and running containers
• Flexibility to take on new kinds of projects and pivot to new work as opportunities arise

What we'd like to see

• Fluency in Go and its ecosystem
• Solid understanding of what makes a secure software supply chain
• Passion for building great UX for CLIs and automation tools
• Strong CI/CD background for production applications
• Deep knowledge of containers and container images
• Contributions to Anchore’s OSS projects (e.g. Syft, Grype, etc.)