Staff Product Security Engineer

Chainguard

10h • $205,000 - $231,000 • Remote

About The Position

Chainguard is hiring a Staff Product Security Engineer to help make secure-by-default development a reality across its products and engineering organization. This hands-on staff-level role leads high-impact, cross-functional security initiatives and partners with Engineering, Product, and Security leadership to turn complex risks into practical improvements. A key focus is the AI software development lifecycle (AI SDLC), including policies, tooling, and guardrails that help engineers use AI responsibly throughout design, coding, testing, review, deployment, and operations.

The engineer will drive product security strategy and execution across products, platforms, and teams; improve secure development practices; and help raise the organization’s security maturity through technical work, influence, and partnership. The role is remote and open to candidates in the United States, UK, and Canada.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software, product, application, or cloud security.
• Experience driving security programs from design through rollout, such as secure SDLC, AI SDLC, vulnerability management, platform hardening, or security automation.
• Practical understanding of how engineers build and ship software, and ability to translate security requirements into workflows teams will adopt.
• Strong hands-on familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, public cloud, and associated security controls.
• Experience with security compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, or SLSA, and ability to translate controls into practical engineering work.
• Ability to automate security workflows in at least one language, such as Go, Python, or Shell, and integrate them into CI/CD.
• Proven ability to influence and align teams through clear, concise communication in a remote-first environment.
• Strong ownership, accountability, and adaptability; ability to anticipate risks, navigate ambiguity, and improve systems and teams.
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Nice To Haves

• Experience designing or operating an AI SDLC, AI security program, or governance model for AI-assisted development.
• Background in software supply-chain security, including SBOMs, provenance, signing, or build-system hardening.
• Experience with red-teaming, offensive security, or security-sensitive open-source software development.
• Experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC scanning, policy-as-code, or related security tooling.
• Public speaking or writing on security topics, or participation in industry communities and standards bodies.
• Experience in an early-stage or high-growth company where security must move at product speed.

Responsibilities

• Drive product security strategy and execution across multiple products, platforms, and engineering teams.
• Lead the evolution of Chainguard’s secure SDLC, particularly the AI SDLC and the risks of AI-assisted development.
• Define and implement practical guardrails for AI use in engineering, including secure patterns, policies, workflow controls, review practices, and automation.
• Partner with Engineering to embed security controls throughout architecture, design, coding, testing, code review, deployment, and operations.
• Lead secure architecture reviews and threat-modeling efforts for high-impact systems; identify systemic weaknesses and guide scalable mitigations.
• Own cross-functional initiatives such as vulnerability reduction, security automation, and secure-by-default engineering improvements.
• Partner with Engineering to automate vulnerability detection, triage, and remediation, including policy-as-code and cloud or container security controls.
• Champion security tooling in developer workflows and CI/CD, including static and dynamic analysis, dependency and license checks, infrastructure-as-code scanners, and AI-related controls.
• Improve how security assurance activities—such as penetration tests, vulnerability assessments, bug bounty programs, and red-team exercises—are conducted and consumed so findings lead to lasting improvements.
• Translate frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and SLSA into durable, automation-friendly engineering controls.
• Monitor emerging threats, software supply-chain risks, and AI security developments, and turn them into concrete changes to controls, tooling, and product direction.
• Influence senior stakeholders through clear risk framing, trade-off analysis, and pragmatic recommendations.
• Mentor Product Security Engineers and help raise security standards across the engineering organization.

Benefits

• Remote-first culture with team meetup opportunities and bi-annual destination summits.
• Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet costs.
• Stock options upon hire and promotion; participation in secondary offerings; 10 years to exercise options.
• 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
• Flexible time off.
• Paid parental leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, usable at once or throughout the child’s first year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed