Staff Product Security Engineer

🕒 5 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170k - $231k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Chainguard

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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

• Design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with security gates that catch issues before production. • Systematically and automatically capture the risk exposure of Chainguard's products. • Implement and enforce software supply chain security controls, including signed artifacts, SBOMs, and provenance attestation. • Identify emerging customer security needs and build solutions to meet them. • Lead security architecture reviews and threat models for Kubernetes-based workloads on GCP and AWS. • Harden container images, Kubernetes cluster configurations, and cloud IAM postures. • Define and drive adoption of baseline security standards, including pod security standards, network policies, workload identity, and secrets management. • Evaluate and operationalise CNAPP/CSPM tooling for continuous visibility into cloud-native risk. • Provide technical leadership, cross-team influence, and ownership of complex security problems as an individual contributor.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or a combined role with meaningful hands-on security responsibility. • Strong proficiency in Go or Python; ability to write, review, and debug production-quality code. • Deep hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including cluster hardening, RBAC, network policies, and admission controllers. • Practical expertise with GCP and/or AWS, including IAM, workload identity, secrets management, and security services. • Proven experience designing and securing CI/CD pipelines, such as GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or Tekton. • Fluency with container security, including image scanning, distroless/minimal base images, and runtime security. • Experience with software supply chain security tooling and frameworks, including Sigstore, SLSA, and SBOM generation. • Solid understanding of OWASP, NIST, and cloud security frameworks and their pragmatic application. • Nice to have: familiarity with Chainguard Images or other minimal/hardened container base image ecosystems. • Nice to have: experience with policy-as-code tools such as OPA, Kyverno, or Conftest. • Nice to have: contributions to open source security projects. • Nice to have: security research or offensive security background, such as bug bounty, CTF, or penetration testing.

🏖️ 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. • Receive 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 you and your dependents. • Flexible time off. • 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents. • Equal opportunity employer.