Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to secure and evolve the multi-cloud infrastructure that powers its product. The role partners with product engineering to build resilient cloud environments, embed security into infrastructure and workflows, and protect software supply chains and AI-driven pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Engineer and maintain cloud environments built to be secure, resilient, and optimized for performance
- Partner hands-on with internal engineering teams to embed security into the architecture and tooling developers use every day
- Work closely with our IAM counterparts to design and enforce secure identity and access strategies across all cloud environments
- Harden cloud platforms against emerging threats while keeping them resilient and highly available
- Lead cloud-centric disaster recovery exercises
- Bring a DevOps mindset by building automation, pipelines, and guardrails using Terraform/IaC and Kubernetes
- Help secure the infrastructure behind AI-driven pipelines and agentic workflows as they become a growing consumer of the software supply chain
- Act as a trusted advisor and collaborator to product engineering translating requirements into secure practical infrastructure that other teams will rapidly adopt
- Adapt architecture and priorities as the company scales, reworking plans as needs, tooling, or team structure shift
- Assist during relevant incident response investigations
Skills
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong, hands-on GCP or AWS engineering experience required
- Solid DevOps background: comfortable using Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes (GKE), and CI/CD pipelines
- A track record of designing systems that are secure, resilient, and built to accelerate engineering velocity
- Experience with Azure also a plus
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change: prior experience at a fast-moving or late-stage startup is a strong plus
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.
- You can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options.
- 100% covered 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.
- 18 weeks paid parental leave 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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