Senior Product Manager (Scanner)
$205,000–$231,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Own detection quality, platform strategy, and the customer experience around scanning for Chainguard's shared scanning platform. Define the roadmap to scale the scanner beyond Libraries to Containers, Agent Skills, and future artifact types while balancing investments in detection quality, performance, and extensibility. Drive the feedback loop between Engineering and Product Security to continuously improve detection quality and build workflows for reviewing, escalating, and correcting detections quickly. Expand malware and greyware detection capabilities by partnering with Product Security to identify emerging threats and publish actionable intelligence. Define how customers investigate, enforce, and appeal scanner findings by building intuitive workflows for policy management and enterprise-scale operations.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of Product Management experience
- strong track record building developer tools, infrastructure, security, or platform products
- Experience owning highly technical platforms or backend infrastructure that supports multiple products or internal customers
- Strong understanding of software supply chain security, malware detection, vulnerability management, or adjacent security domains
- Demonstrated success making product prioritization decisions in technically complex and ambiguous environments
- Excellent cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to influence Engineering, Security, Design, and GTM partners
- Experience taking products or platform capabilities from early concept through customer adoption and iterative improvement
- Strong technical credibility—you don't need to write production code, but you should be comfortable discussing architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and security concepts with engineering teams
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with malware detection, static analysis, software composition analysis (SCA), or vulnerability scanning
- Familiarity with package ecosystems such as npm, PyPI, Maven, Go modules, or container registries
- Experience building reusable platform capabilities that support multiple products
- Background in cloud infrastructure, software supply chain security, or enterprise security platforms
- Experience working with AI-assisted security analysis or automated threat detection systems
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