Chainguard
Technology
PrincipalProductSecurityResearcher
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“Principal Product Security Researcher at Chainguard. Skills: Product Security, CI/CD Security, Cloud Security, Supply Chain Security. Build secure CI/CD pipelines. Harden secure CI/CD pipelines”
Industry & Context.
Owning hard problems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years in software engineering, 7+ years in security engineering, Proficiency in Go or Python, Ability to write production-quality code, Ability to debug production-quality code, Deep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production, Practical expertise with GCP or AWS, Proven track record designing CI/CD pipelines, Proven track record securing CI/CD pipelines, Fluency with container security, Experience with software supply chain security tooling, Experience with software supply chain security frameworks, Solid understanding of OWASP, Solid understanding of NIST, Solid understanding of cloud security frameworks
Nice to Have
Familiarity with Chainguard Images, Familiarity with minimal container base images, Familiarity with hardened container base images, Experience with policy-as-code tools, Contributions to open source security projects, Background in security research, Background in offensive security
What You'll Do.
Build secure CI/CD pipelines
Harden secure CI/CD pipelines
Design secure CI/CD pipelines
Maintain secure CI/CD pipelines
Catch issues before production
Capture risk exposure
Automate risk exposure capture
Implement software supply chain controls
Enforce software supply chain controls
Provide provenance attestation
Identify customer security needs
Build solutions for security needs
Lead security architecture reviews
Harden container images
Harden Kubernetes cluster configurations
Minimize attack surface
Define baseline security standards
Drive adoption of security standards
Evaluate CNAPP tooling
Operationalise CNAPP tooling
Maintain cloud-native risk visibility
Evaluate CSPM tooling
Operationalise CSPM tooling
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-team influence
Full Job Description
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. Staff Product Security Engineer 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! At Chainguard, you won't be a gate at the end of the process; you'll be embedded in it. This is an individual-contributor Staff role. That means 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 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. 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 — minimising 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 operationalise CNAPP / CSPM tooling to maintain continuous vis
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