Staff Product Security Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines and harden cloud-native products. This includes leading security architecture reviews and threat models for Kubernetes-based workloads on GCP and AWS.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with security gates
• Capture the risk exposure of Chainguard products automatically
• Implement and enforce software supply chain security controls
• Proactively identify and build solutions for emerging customer security needs
• Lead security architecture reviews and threat models for Kubernetes-based workloads
• Harden container images, Kubernetes cluster configurations, and cloud IAM postures
• Define and drive adoption of baseline security standards

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or a combined role with meaningful hands-on security responsibility
• Strong proficiency in Go or Python
• Deep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production
• Practical expertise with GCP and/or AWS
• Proven track record designing and securing CI/CD pipelines
• Fluency with container security
• Experience with software supply chain security tooling and frameworks
• Solid understanding of OWASP, NIST, and cloud security frameworks

Nice to have

• 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

• Work remotely with team meetup opportunities
• Bi-annual destination summits
• Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs
• Stock options upon hire and promotion
• Participate in secondary offerings
• 10 years to exercise options
• 100% Covered Health Insurance for employee 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, delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds. Their customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders.