Senior Security Engineer (Cyber Resiliency)

Chainguard

11d • $130,000 - $150,000 • Remote

About The Position

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. The role, in a nutshell: Help shape how the open source world defends itself while working with a high‑trust, low‑ego team that actually makes security fun. As a Senior Security Engineer on our Cyber Resiliency team, your role will be to enable Chainguardians to do their best work through collaborative low-friction Information Security. You will work closely with the security team and collaborate with teams across the company to improve our security posture and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations. A successful candidate will possess a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving abilities, relentless curiosity, and a team first mentality.

Requirements

• Candidates who reflect the four company values
• Superb interpersonal and communication skills (No Assholes)
• A practiced technical investigative mindset
• Experience securing cloud-native environments
• Experience with cloud and endpoint security operations
• Bias for macOS or Linux technology
• Passion for all things AI
• Threat intelligence savvy
• Ability to work independently across multiple simultaneous work streams
• Cloud forensics and incident response knowledge, skills, and experience
• Ability to craft automation with languages such as Go, Python, or Shell
• 5+ years of experience in software development, information security, or IT engineering or combination of the three
• Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Security, or Information Systems preferred but not required

Nice To Haves

• Offensive security and or open-source software development a plus

Responsibilities

• Join a team of high character, high talent individuals
• Design, deploy and optimize innovative technical controls to detect and prevent security incidents
• Engineer custom detection logic, integrate threat intelligence, automate with SOAR, and design Agentic AI security operations playbooks
• Contributed or lead incident response efforts, including tabletop exercises
• Collaborate across teams to integrate security best practices into products and processes
• Conduct thesis-driven threat hunts across forensic data lakes
• Continuously research the threat landscape and commit to your professional self-deployment with guaranteed work time and training budget
• Rotational on-call responsibilities (workload is reasonable and shared across the team)

Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior