Federal Sales Engineer - Civilian
Chainguard
About this role
The Federal Sales Engineer on the Public Sector team acts as the technical lead (CTO) for a defined territory, owning how the product is positioned, demonstrated, and proven to customers. The role involves building and maintaining relationships with federal customers, partners, and internal teams to drive new logo acquisition and growth of existing accounts. This position supports marketing initiatives and represents customer needs within the company to improve software supply chain security for government customers.
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About Chainguard
chainguard.devChainguard provides trusted open source artifacts for every layer of the modern software stack—containers, language libraries, and VM images. They focus on reducing supply‑chain risk by producing hardened, minimal, and vulnerability‑reduced artifacts with strong provenance and signing. Chainguard also supplies tools and services to integrate those artifacts into secure CI/CD and DevSecOps workflows. Organizations use Chainguard to deploy more auditable, reproducible, and secure software.
Recent company news
PR NewswireChainguard Welcomes New Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Financial Officer to Fuel Next Chapter of Growth
Jul 30, 2025
GeekWireChainguard lands $280M to help scale cybersecurity startup's open source software protections
Oct 23, 2025
PR NewswireChainguard Announces $280 Million Growth Financing from General Catalyst to Usher in Next Era of Trusted Open Source Software
Oct 23, 2025
425business.comKirkland’s Chainguard Announces $280M in Growth Financing
Oct 23, 2025
FinTech GlobalChainguard raises $280m to boost secure software growth
Oct 24, 2025
About Chainguard
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$225k – $275k
per year