Staff Product Security Engineer
Chainguard1 day ago
Remote, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with security gates that identify issues before production.
- Automatically capture and assess risk exposure across Chainguard products.
- Implement software supply chain security controls including signed artifacts, SBOMs, provenance attestations, SLSA, and Sigstore/Cosign.
- Identify emerging customer security needs and build solutions to address them.
- Lead security architecture reviews and threat models for Kubernetes workloads running on GCP and AWS.
- Harden container images, Kubernetes configurations, and cloud IAM postures.
- Define and drive adoption of pod security standards, network policies, workload identity, and secrets management.
- Write, review, and debug production-quality Go or Python code.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, security engineering, or a combined role with meaningful hands-on security responsibility.
- Strong proficiency in Go or Python.
- Deep production experience with Kubernetes, including cluster hardening, RBAC, network policies, and admission controllers.
- Practical expertise with GCP and/or AWS, including IAM, workload identity, secrets management, and cloud security services.
- Experience designing and securing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Tekton, or similar tools.
- Fluency with container security, including image scanning, minimal or distroless base images, and runtime security.
- Experience with software supply chain security tools and frameworks such as Sigstore, SLSA, and SBOM generation.
- Understanding of OWASP, NIST, and cloud security frameworks and their practical application.
- Familiarity with Chainguard Images or other hardened container base image ecosystems is preferred.
- Experience with policy-as-code tools such as OPA, Kyverno, or Conftest is preferred.
- Open source security contributions are preferred.
- Security research or offensive security experience, including bug bounty, CTF, or penetration testing, is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote-first work with team meetups, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking, phone, and internet costs.
- Stock options upon hire and promotion, participation in secondary offerings, and a 10-year exercise window.
- 100% 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, usable at once or throughout the child’s first year.
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About Chainguard
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.