Principal Product Security Researcher

🔥 14 hours ago

🌐 Canada, United States, +1 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Chainguard

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

Security • SaaS • Cybersecurity

Chainguard is a company that specializes in building secure container images to enhance software security and compliance. Their products include low-to-zero CVE container images, which are updated daily to maintain security and compliance standards such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, PCI-DSS, SOC2, and CIS benchmarks. Chainguard focuses on reducing vulnerabilities, automating compliance, and supporting development workflows without compromising on innovation and productivity. The company serves a wide range of industries, including highly regulated sectors, by providing hardened image solutions to mitigate software supply chain risks and enhance application security.

📋 Description

• Own Chainguard’s product security research agenda by scanning the broader ecosystem, identifying emerging attack patterns, and translating them into risks and opportunities. • Shape security direction across products and platforms with Product, Engineering, and Security leadership. • Drive industry agenda and discussion topics around security risks and priorities. • Research emerging threats and trends in software supply chain and product security and analyze their impact on products and customers. • Design pragmatic mitigations across people, process, and technology. • Partner with executive and senior engineering leadership on organization-wide security strategy, roadmap decisions, and complex changes. • Identify systematic weaknesses and develop durable root-cause remediation plans. • Mentor and develop Product Security and Engineering team members. • Balance stakeholder input and deliver value across functions. • Represent Chainguard externally through talks, conferences, and thought leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience in product or application security, with a track record of leading research or threat-focused work that drove clear, company-level outcomes. • Expert knowledge across multiple domains such as secure architecture, application/product security, software supply chain, and org-level risk management. • Ability to balance security, velocity, and reliability. • Ability to own ambiguous, cross-functional problems and turn them into structured, prioritized initiatives that ship and stick. • Proven ability to present complex ideas to executive stakeholders, gain alignment, and drive decision-making at the highest levels. • Current knowledge of industry trends, tooling, and research methods, with the ability to apply them pragmatically. • Ability to work independently with high ownership and collaborate generously. • Comfort working in fast-evolving, uncertain contexts and building structure.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs. • Stock options upon hire and promotion • Participation in secondary offerings • 10 years to exercise stock options • 100% covered health, vision and dental insurance premiums for the employee and dependents • Unlimited flexible time off • 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents • Option to use parental leave all at once or throughout the child's first year