Staff Product Security Engineer
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with automated security gates, systematically capturing risk exposure for Chainguard's products. Implement supply chain controls including signed artifacts, SBOMs, and SLSA attestation while hardening container images and Kubernetes workloads on GCP and AWS. Lead security architecture reviews, define baseline standards for pod security and secrets management, and operationalize CNAPP tooling for continuous cloud-native risk visibility. This individual-contributor Staff role requires deep technical leadership in embedded security, with a focus on solving hard problems for Fortune 500 clients like OpenAI and Snowflake.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ 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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Desired Qualifications
- 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)
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