Senior Product Security Engineer

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.

Staff Product Security Engineer 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. This is an individual-contributor Staff role.

That means technical leadership, cross-team influence, and owning hard problems. 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 Chainguard s 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 — minimising attack surface across our product stack. Define and drive adoption of baseline security standards: pod security standards, network policies, workload identity, secrets management.

Evaluate and operationalise CNAPP / CSPM tooling to maintain continuous v