Staff Vulnerability Management Engineer

🕒 August 14

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👷🏻‍♀️ 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

• Own measurement, disclosure, and reporting of a pipeline of thousands of novel vulnerabilities identified weekly by frontier models and other sources • Calibrate the response process in response to emerging trends • Manage reporting of newly discovered vulnerabilities to upstream projects and maintainers • Run the CNA program to assign new CVEs where necessary • Coordinate internal and external embargoes with customers, internal engineering teams, and external maintainers • Work with the Linux Foundation, CISA, and other bodies to coordinate actions and responses • Guide industry direction so Chainguard customer needs are met by emerging standards and norms • Represent Chainguard externally and visibly as the face of its industry-leading efforts • Work with AI model vendors to guide future evolution of the software supply chain • Provide technical leadership, cross-team influence, and ownership of complex problems as an individual contributor

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in software security, open source maintenance, or vulnerability disclosure management • Strong understanding of responsible disclosure • Practical expertise automating pipelines and processes at large scale and removing the human-in-the-loop • Deep experience with open source communities • Experience coordinating with public sector or industry standards bodies and working groups • Established vulnerability disclosure management and embargo thought leadership (nice to have) • Familiarity with Chainguard Images or minimal/hardened container base image ecosystems (nice to have) • Experience operating a CNA (nice to have) • Software engineering background in Python, Java, Javascript, Go, or similar languages (nice to have) • Background in security research, penetration testing, or bug bounties (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture • Team meetup opportunities • Bi-annual destination summits • 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 you and your dependents • Flexible time off • 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents • 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents • Option to use parental leave all at once or throughout the child's first year