Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering secure builds of software. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager for Malware Detection to own detection quality, platform strategy, and enhance customer experience around scanning.
Responsibilities
- Own coverage, precision, and delivery of core product metrics
- Drive the feedback loop between Engineering and Product Security to continuously improve detection quality
- Build workflows for reviewing, escalating, and correcting detections quickly
- Define the roadmap for Chainguard's shared scanning platform
- Scale the scanner beyond Libraries to Containers, Agent Skills, and future artifact types
- Balance investments in detection quality, performance, and extensibility
- Expand malware and greyware detection capabilities
- Partner with Product Security to identify emerging threats and publish actionable intelligence
- Define how customers investigate, enforce, and appeal scanner findings
- Build intuitive workflows for policy management and enterprise-scale operations
Skills
- 5+ years of Product Management experience with a strong track record building developer tools, infrastructure, security, or platform products
- Experience owning highly technical platforms or backend infrastructure that supports multiple products or internal customers
- Strong understanding of software supply chain security, malware detection, vulnerability management, or adjacent security domains
- Demonstrated success making product prioritization decisions in technically complex and ambiguous environments
- Excellent cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to influence Engineering, Security, Design, and GTM partners
- Experience taking products or platform capabilities from early concept through customer adoption and iterative improvement
- Strong technical credibility—you don't need to write production code, but you should be comfortable discussing architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and security concepts with engineering teams
- Experience with malware detection, static analysis, software composition analysis (SCA), or vulnerability scanning
- Familiarity with package ecosystems such as npm, PyPI, Maven, Go modules, or container registries
- Experience building reusable platform capabilities that support multiple products
- Background in cloud infrastructure, software supply chain security, or enterprise security platforms
- Experience working with AI-assisted security analysis or automated threat detection systems
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 (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.
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