About the role

Senior Security Engineer at Chainguard shaping how open source defends itself. Collaborate with teams to enhance security posture and compliance with industry standards.

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
This position includes rotational on-call responsibilities; Not brutal-the workload is reasonable and shared across the team

Candidates who reflect the four company values (see below)
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.
Offensive security and or open-source software development a plus
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.

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.