[Hiring] Staff Product Security Engineer @Chainguard

Role Description

The role in a nutshell:

• You are a deeply technical engineer who gets restless when pipelines aren't locked down.
• You care about shipping secure software!
• This is an individual-contributor Staff role, meaning technical leadership, cross-team influence, and owning hard problems.

What you’ll do:

• Build & Harden Secure Pipelines:
  • Design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with security gates that catch issues before they reach production.
  • Systematically, consistently and automatically capture the risk exposure of Chainguard's products.
  • Implement and enforce software supply chain security controls: signed artifacts, SBOMs, provenance attestation (SLSA, Sigstore / Cosign).
  • Proactively identify emerging customer security needs, and build solutions to meet these.
• Cloud-Native Product Hardening:
  • Lead security architecture reviews and threat models for Kubernetes-based workloads running on GCP and AWS.
  • Harden container images, Kubernetes cluster configurations, and cloud IAM postures — minimizing attack surface across our product stack.
  • Define and drive adoption of baseline security standards: pod security standards, network policies, workload identity, secrets management.
  • Evaluate and operationalize CNAPP / CSPM tooling to maintain continuous visibility into cloud-native risk.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or a combined role with meaningful hands-on security responsibility throughout.
• Strong proficiency in Go or Python, with the ability to write, review, and debug production-quality code.
• Deep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production (cluster hardening, RBAC, network policies, admission controllers).
• Practical expertise with GCP and/or AWS: IAM, workload identity, secrets management, security services (e.g., GCP Security Command Center, AWS Security Hub).
• Proven track record designing and securing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Tekton, or similar).
• Fluency with container security: image scanning, distroless/minimal base images, runtime security.
• Experience with software supply chain security tooling and frameworks (Sigstore, SLSA, SBOM generation).
• Solid understanding of OWASP, NIST, and cloud security frameworks and how to apply them pragmatically.
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Requirements

• Familiarity with Chainguard Images or other minimal/hardened container base image ecosystems.
• Experience with policy-as-code tools (OPA, Kyverno, Conftest).
• Contributions to open source security projects.
• Background in security research or offensive security (bug bounty, CTF, 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.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 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 do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.