Chainguard
Technology
SeniorSecurityEngineer(CyberResiliency)
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“Senior Security Engineer (Cyber Resiliency) at Chainguard. Skills: Cyber Resiliency, Information Security, AI Security Operations. Design innovative technical controls. Deploy innovative technical controls”
Industry & Context.
Problem-solving abilities
Rotational on-call
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience in software development, information security, or IT engineering or combination of the three
Nice to Have
Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Security, or Information Systems preferred but not required, Offensive security a plus, Open-source software development a plus
What You'll Do.
Design innovative technical controls
Deploy innovative technical controls
Optimize innovative technical controls
Engineer custom detection logic
Integrate threat intelligence
Design Agentic AI security operations playbooks
Contributed incident response efforts
Lead incident response efforts
Conduct tabletop exercises
Integrate security best practices into products
Integrate security best practices into processes
Conduct thesis-driven threat hunts
Research the threat landscape
Commit to professional self-deployment
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate across teams; Work with security team
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. The role, in a nutshell: Help shape how the open source world defends itself while working with a high‑trust, low‑ego team that actually makes security fun. As a Senior Security Engineer on our Cyber Resiliency team, your role will be to enable Chainguardians to do their best work through collaborative low-friction Information Security. You will work closely with the security team and collaborate with teams across the company to improve our security posture and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations. A successful candidate will possess a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving abilities, relentless curiosity, and a team first mentality. What you’ll do: Join a team of high character, high talent individuals Design, deploy and optimize innovative technical controls to detect and prevent security incidents Engineer custom detection logic, integrate threat intelligence, automate with SOAR, and design Agentic AI security operations playbooks Contributed or lead incident response efforts, including tabletop exercises Collaborate across teams to integrate security best practices into products and processes Conduct thesis-driven threat hunts across forensic data lakes Continuously research the threat landscape and commit to your professional self-deployment with guaranteed work time and training budget This position includes rotational
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