Chainguard
SeniorProductSecurityEngineer
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“Senior Product Security Engineer at Chainguard. Skills: Product Security Engineering, CI/CD Security, Cloud-Native Security, Software Supply Chain. Build secure pipelines. Harden secure pipelines”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years software engineering, 5+ years security engineering, Proficiency in Go or Python, Write, review, debug production code, Deep Kubernetes experience, Practical GCP/AWS expertise, Proven CI/CD pipeline design, Fluency container security, Experience software supply chain security, Solid understanding OWASP, Solid understanding NIST, Solid understanding cloud security frameworks
Nice to Have
Familiarity with Chainguard 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 pipelines
Harden secure pipelines
Design secure CI/CD pipelines
Build secure CI/CD pipelines
Maintain secure CI/CD pipelines
Implement security gates
Capture risk exposure
Automate risk exposure capture
Implement supply chain security controls
Enforce supply chain security controls
Identify customer security needs
Build solutions for customer 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 continuous visibility
Maintain cloud-native risk visibility
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Embedded in pipelines
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. Senior 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. 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 visibility into cloud-native risk. What we're looking for: Required 5+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or a
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