Responsibilities
- This is an individual-contributor Staff role. That means technical leadership, cross-team influence, and owning hard problems
- Design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with security gates that catch issues before they reach production
- Systematically, consistently and automatically capture the risk exposure of Chainguards products
- Implement and enforce software supply chain security controls: signed artifacts, SBOMs, provenance attestation (SLSA, Sigstore / Cosign)
- Proactively identify emerging customer security needs, and build solutions to meet these
- Lead security architecture reviews and threat models for Kubernetes-based workloads running on GCP and AWS
- Harden container images, Kubernetes cluster configurations, and cloud IAM postures — minimising attack surface across our product stack
- Define and drive adoption of baseline security standards: pod security standards, network policies, workload identity, secrets management
- Evaluate and operationalize CNAPP / CSPM tooling to maintain continuous visibility into cloud-native risk
Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in Go or Python, with the ability to write, review, and debug production-quality code
- Experience with software supply chain security tooling and frameworks (Sigstore, SLSA, SBOM generation)
- Fluency with container security: image scanning, distroless/minimal base images, runtime security
- Proven track record designing and securing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Tekton, or similar)
- 7+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or a combined role with meaningful hands‑on security responsibility throughout
- Deep, hands‑on experience with Kubernetes in production (cluster hardening, RBAC, network policies, admission controllers)
- Practical expertise with GCP and/or AWS: IAM, workload identity, secrets management, security services (e.g., GCP Security Command Center, AWS Security Hub)
- Solid understanding of OWASP, NIST, and cloud security frameworks and how to apply them pragmatically
- Familiarity with Chainguard Images or other minimal/hardened container base image ecosystems
- Experience with policy-as-code tools (OPA, Kyverno, Conftest)
- Contributions to open source security projects
- Background in security research or offensive security (bug bounty, CTF, penetration testing)
Benefits
- Equity/stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
- Home office and internet stipend
- 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family
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