Staff Vulnerability Management Engineer

Chainguard

4h • Remote

About The Position

The role in a nutshell: You care deeply about the future of open source software, and have a desire to work across the industry to solve the new problems that frontier models are creating for the industry as a whole. At Chainguard, we are leading the charge into the next chapter of AI supply chain security - you will be at the forefront of that. This is an individual-contributor Staff role. That means technical leadership, cross-team influence, and owning hard problems.

Requirements

• 7+ years in software security, open source maintenance, or vulnerability disclosure management.
• A strong understanding of responsible disclosure.
• Practical expertise with automating pipelines and processes, to operate at large scale, and to remove the human-in-the-loop.
• Deep experience with open source communities.
• Experience in co-ordinating with public sector or industry standards bodies and working groups.
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Nice To Haves

• Established thought leadership in the industry relating to vulnerability disclosure management and embargoes.
• Familiarity with Chaiguard Images or other minimal/hardened container base image ecosystems.
• Experience operating a CNA.
• Software engineering background in Python, Java, Javascript, Go, or similar languages.
• Background in security research, pen testing or bug bounties.

Responsibilities

• Manage our novel vulnerabilities pipeline
• Own the measurement, disclosure and reporting of our pipeline of thousands of novel vulnerabilities weekly identified by frontier models and other sources
• Calibrate our response process in response to emerging trends
• Manage the reporting of newly discovered vulnerabilities to upstream projects and maintainers
• Run our CNA program to assign new CVEs where necessary
• Co-ordinate internal and external embargoes, working with customers, internal engineering teams, and external maintainers
• Co-ordinate across the industry
• Work with the Linux Foundation, CISA, and other bodies to co-ordinate actions and responses.
• Guide and lead industry direction to ensure Chainguard customer needs are best met by emerging standards and norms.
• Represent Chainguard externally and visibly, to be the face of our industry leading efforts.
• Work with AI model vendors to guide future evolution of the software supply chain.

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.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• 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
• Education Level: No Education Listed