Chainguard

Senior Security Engineer (Infrastructure)

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Base Salary

$137k - $160k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Engineer and maintain secure, resilient, and performance-optimized multi-cloud environments.
  • Partner hands-on with engineering teams to embed security into architecture and developer tooling.
  • Design and enforce secure identity and access strategies with IAM teams across cloud environments.
  • Harden cloud platforms against emerging threats while maintaining resilience and high availability.
  • Lead cloud-centric disaster recovery exercises and assist with incident response investigations.
  • Build automation, pipelines, and security guardrails using Terraform/IaC and Kubernetes.
  • Secure infrastructure supporting AI-driven pipelines, agentic workflows, and the software supply chain.
  • Advise product engineering teams and translate requirements into practical infrastructure solutions.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on engineering experience with GCP or AWS is required.
  • Experience with Azure is a plus.
  • Solid DevOps experience using Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes including GKE, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Demonstrated ability to design secure, resilient systems that accelerate engineering velocity.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Experience in a fast-moving or late-stage startup is a strong plus.
  • Comfort working with ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities, tooling, and team structures.

Benefits

  • Flexible remote-first culture with team meetups, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly coworking, phone, and internet stipend.
  • Stock options upon hire and promotion, participation in secondary offerings, and a 10-year exercise period.
  • Company-paid health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
  • Flexible time off.
  • Paid parental leave of 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
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About Chainguard

501-1,000 employees

Chainguard provides secure, hardened container images and production-ready builds of open source software for enterprises and developers, typically sold via subscriptions and support. Its offerings include Chainguard Images and tools for software supply chain security; the company also maintains Wolfi, a container-focused Linux distribution. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Kirkland, WA, Chainguard’s customers include organizations such as OpenAI, Snowflake, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

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