Senior Product Security Engineer

Overview

Senior Product Security Engineer embedded in the software development process to design, build and harden secure CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native workloads and software supply chain controls for Chainguard's products.

What you'll do

• 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 Chainguard's 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 the product stack.
• Define and drive adoption of baseline security standards: pod security standards, network policies, workload identity, secrets management.

What you'll need

• 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.
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Nice to have

• 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).

Details

• Location: United States, Remote.
• Base salary range: $157,000 to $184,000 USD.