Staff Product Security Engineer

About the Role

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. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. The role in a nutshell: You are a deeply technical engineer who gets restless when pipelines aren't locked down. You care about shipping secure software! At Chainguard, you won't be a gate at the end of the process; you'll be embedded in it. What you’ll do: Build & Harden Secure Pipelines Design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with security gates that catch issues before they reach production. Systematically, consistently and automatically capture the risk exposure of Chainguards products. Implement and enforce software supply chain security controls: signed artifacts, SBOMs, provenance attestation (SLSA, Sigstore / Cosign). Proactively identify emerging customer security needs, and build solutions to meet these. Cloud-Native Product Hardening Lead security architecture reviews and threat models for Kubernetes-based workloads running on GCP and AWS. Harden container images, Kubernetes cluster configurations, and cloud IAM postures — minimizing attack surface across our product stack. Define and drive adoption of baseline security standards: pod security standards, network policies, workload identity, secrets management. What we're looking for: Required 8+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or a combined role with meaningful hands-on security responsibility throughout. Strong proficien

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• verified hiring timeline
• and career progression.