[Hiring] Staff Security Analyst @Chainguard

Role Description

Chainguard is building the secure foundation for software development and deployment. Our Governance & Trust team makes sure the security practices behind that mission are effective, measurable, and worthy of our customers' trust.

We're hiring a senior practitioner to lead the compliance and trust side of that team. You'll run the execution of our external examinations (SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, and a growing set of sector and regional certifications), own how we respond to customer security diligence, and run third-party risk operations.

You'll lead the compliance and trust side of the team, which includes a public-sector compliance analyst and two customer-facing security analysts, with formal management of that group expected as the team grows.

This is not a checklist compliance role. Our operating model treats policies and controls as code, draws evidence from systems of record rather than screenshots, and uses AI agents for first-pass questionnaire responses and vendor triage. You'll be the person who decides what those systems need to produce, judges whether what they produce is right, and stands behind it with an auditor or a customer.

What you’ll do:

• Run the execution of Chainguard's external examinations end to end: the evidence calendar, population and completeness-and-accuracy requests, sample fulfilment, auditor status calls, and readiness assessment ahead of each cycle.
• Work with the Head of Governance & Trust on scope, control applicability, and auditor negotiation.
• Build and keep the working relationships with People, IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, Legal, and Sales that evidence, populations, and remediation depend on.
• Own customer security diligence: security questionnaires, customer audits, Trust Center content, and the multi-round assessments that regulated customers run.
• Set turnaround expectations with Sales that the team can meet, and decide what we will and won't provide.
• Own the third-party risk management program: vendor intake and tiering, assessments, dispositions, and the register of critical suppliers and their agreements.
• Act as product owner for the customer-facing side of our agent platform: define what the questionnaire responder and vendor triage agents must do, maintain the validated answer bank they draw on, and judge whether their output is good enough to send.
• Stay current on how other companies handle diligence and response automation, and bring in better approaches when they exist.
• Turn recurring patterns across questionnaires, audits, and vendor reviews into standing artifacts, self-serve packages, and control improvements.
• Work from a single unified controls catalog across frameworks, and push mapping and implementation defects back to the governance side.
• Produce findings and remediation evidence that survive external re-test, and feed the corrective-action process with root causes rather than symptoms.
• Guide the public-sector compliance analyst's work on assessor relationships and customer-facing federal diligence.
• Own the outcomes that the compliance and trust sections of the function's reporting to the CISO describe.
• Mentor the analysts on the team, give and receive feedback in both directions, and help build the team as it grows.

Qualifications

• You have been the lead on the auditee side of a combined SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 examination.
• You are fluent in regulated-industry customer diligence: SIG, CAIQ, DORA-style questionnaires, portal-mediated assessments, customer audits.
• You have run vendor risk assessments at volume inside a third-party risk program.
• You think of evidence as data and are comfortable with populations defined by query.
• You have worked inside a management system with a functioning corrective-action loop.
• You have directed or mentored junior practitioners and can run a queue against metrics.
• You build cross-functional relationships deliberately and keep them.
• You are comfortable working in an international environment.
• You exercise judgment under examination pressure.
• You write clearly for auditors, customers, and executives.

Requirements

• Exposure to US public-sector requirements (FedRAMP, GovRAMP, CMMC) or UK and EU regimes (Cyber Essentials, UK GDPR, EU Cyber Resilience Act, DORA).
• Experience migrating a program off a GRC platform, or building answer banks, trust packages, or response automation.
• Familiarity with ISO/IEC 42001 or AI governance.
• Understanding of software supply chain security concepts: SBOMs, signing, provenance, SLSA.
• CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor or Lead Implementer, or equivalent.

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.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion, with 10 years to exercise your options.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.