Security Engineer

Overview

Security Engineer for Chainguard’s cybersecurity and compliance work, focused on improving security posture, detecting/preventing incidents, and collaborating across teams.

What you'll do

• Design, deploy, and optimize technical controls to detect and prevent security incidents.
• Engineer custom detection logic, integrate threat intelligence, and automate with SOAR.
• Contribute 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.

What you'll need

• 3+ years of information security or software development experience.
• Experience securing cloud-native environments.
• Knowledge, skills, and experience in digital forensics and incident response.
• Ability to craft automation using Go, Python, and/or shell scripts.
• Experience with endpoint detection and response.
• Bias for macOS or Linux technology.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Security, or Information System.

Details

• Location: United States (Remote).
• Includes rotational on-call responsibilities.
• Base salary range: $105,000–$123,000 USD.