Staff Product Security Engineer

The role

You will lead product security strategy and execution across multiple products and engineering teams. You will focus on the AI SDLC by establishing policies, tooling, and guardrails for responsible AI use.

What you will do

• Drive product security strategy and execution across multiple products, platforms, and engineering teams.
• Lead the evolution of Chainguard’s secure SDLC, with emphasis on the AI SDLC.
• Define and implement practical guardrails for AI use in engineering.
• Partner with Engineering to embed security controls into the full development lifecycle.
• Lead secure architecture reviews and threat-modeling efforts.
• Own cross-functional initiatives such as vulnerability reduction and security automation.
• Partner with Engineering to automate vulnerability detection, triage and remediation.
• Champion the adoption of security tooling within developer workflows and CI/CD.
• Improve how Chainguard runs and consumes security assurance activities.
• Translate frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and SLSA into engineering controls.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software, product, application, or cloud security.
• Experience driving security programs from design through rollout.
• Practical understanding of how engineers build and ship software.
• Strong hands-on familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, public cloud, and associated security controls.
• Experience with security compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, or SLSA.
• Ability to automate security workflows in at least one language, such as Go, Python, or Shell.
• Proven ability to influence and align teams in a remote-first environment.
• Strong ownership, accountability, and adaptability.

Nice to have

• Experience designing or operating an AI SDLC, AI security program, or governance model for AI-assisted development.
• Background in software supply-chain security, including SBOMs, provenance, signing, or build-system hardening.
• Experience with red-teaming, offensive security, or security-sensitive open-source software development.
• Experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC scanning, policy-as-code, or related security tooling.
• Public speaking or writing on security topics, or participation in industry communities and standards bodies.
• Experience in an early-stage or high-growth company where security must move at product speed.

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 options
• 100% Covered Health Insurance for employees and dependents
• ∞ Flexible Time Off
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents

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About the company

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. They deliver hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software to help organizations build faster and eliminate risk.