Chainguard

Compensation

Public job listings show senior technical and solutions roles commonly advertised around roughly $157,000–$231,000 base salary in the United States, plus equity; exact ranges vary by role and geography. Chainguard states that it grants stock options at hire and promotion and allows a 10-year exercise period. Public visa records show historical H-1B activity but no recent FY2025 LCA filings in the cited database; sponsorship should be confirmed per role.

Benefits

Pricing

Containers: free access to up to five images, per-image licensing, or catalog licensing by engineering-organization size; catalog pricing starts at $19,000 for a 10-person team. Libraries are licensed by language ecosystem and developer count. VMs offer per-image/scoped enterprise and catalog models. Enterprise pricing is quote-based.

Differentiators

• —Artifacts are built from verifiable source rather than merely scanned after publication
• —Minimal images and packages designed to reduce attack surface and known CVEs
• —Continuous rebuilding and patching with signed provenance, SBOMs, and SLSA-aligned build infrastructure
• —Wolfi/Distroless/open-source ecosystem expertise and deep maintainer credentials
• —Single expanding catalog across containers, language libraries, VMs, OS packages, CI/CD Actions, and AI-agent skills
• —Developer workflow integration intended to avoid security friction
• —Commercial SLAs and compliance evidence for enterprise and regulated workloads

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