Staff Product Security Engineer

Chainguard

Remote regions

United States

Salary range

$17,000–$231,000/yr

Benefits

Unlimited PTO 18w maternity 12w paternity

What you’ll do:

  • Build, design, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with automated gates to prevent issues in production, capturing product risk exposure systematically.
  • Implement software supply chain security controls, including signed artifacts, SBOMs, and provenance attestation using tools like Sigstore and SLSA.
  • Proactively identify emerging customer security needs and develop tailored solutions to address them.

Cloud-Native Product Hardening:

  • Conduct security architecture reviews and threat models for Kubernetes workloads on GCP and AWS, focusing on risk mitigation.
  • Harden container images, Kubernetes cluster configurations, and cloud IAM postures to reduce attack surfaces across the product stack.
  • Define and promote baseline security standards for pod security, network policies, workload identity, and secrets management.
  • Evaluate and operationalize CNAPP/CSPM tooling to maintain continuous visibility into cloud-native security risks.

What we're looking for:

  • 7+ years in software or security engineering with hands-on security responsibility and proficiency in Go or Python for production code.
  • Deep experience with Kubernetes in production, including cluster hardening, RBAC, network policies, and admission controllers.
  • Practical expertise with GCP and/or AWS security services, IAM, workload identity, and secrets management.
  • Proven track record in designing and securing CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions or Cloud Build.
  • Fluency in container security, software supply chain security frameworks, and applying OWASP or NIST standards pragmatically.

Chainguard

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source software, delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds to help organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. The company is venture-backed, serves Fortune 500 enterprises, and fosters a customer-obsessed, action-oriented culture where team members are trusted and empowered.

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