Senior Product Security Engineer

Remote · US · USD 157,000-184,000 · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 8, 2026

At a glance

We live and breathe our company values:
- We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer:

You are a deeply technical engineer who gets restless when pipelines aren't locked down and cares about shipping secure software.
At Chainguard, you won't be a gate at the end of the process; you'll be embedded in it.

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 Chainguards 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.
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.

5+ 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.

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).

Stock options upon hire and promotion, participation in secondary offerings, and 10 years to exercise options
100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents
Infinite flexible time off
18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents

Flexible & Remote-First Culture with team meetup opportunities and bi-annual destination summits.

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