Security Engineer - Chainguard

About Chainguard

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

The Role, In a Nutshell

Ready to trade security headaches for the satisfaction of outsmarting cyber threats and having a little fun along the way?

As a Security Engineer, your role will be to enable Chainguardians to do their best work through collaborative low-friction Information Security. You will work closely with the security team and collaborate with teams across the company to improve our security posture and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations. A successful candidate will possess a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving abilities, relentless curiosity, and a team-first mentality.

What You’ll Do

• Join a team of high character, high talent individuals on the Cyber Resiliency team
• 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
• Contribute 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 worktime and training budget
• Participate in rotational on-call responsibilities (reasonable workload, shared across the team)

What We're Looking For (You do not need all of these to apply)

• Investigative mindset
• 3+ years of information security or software development experience
• Experience securing cloud-native environments
• Experience with endpoint detection and response
• Bias for macOS or Linux technology
• Passion for all things AI
• Ability to work independently across multiple simultaneous work streams
• Digital forensics and incident response knowledge, skills, and experience
• Ability to craft automation with languages such as Go, Python, shell scripts
• Offensive security a plus
• Threat intelligence background a plus
• Superb interpersonal and communication skills (No Assholes)
• Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Security, Information Systems

About Us & Benefits

We live and breathe our company values:

• Customer Obsessed: We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• Bias for Intentional Action: We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• Keep It Light: We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work).
• Trust & Good Intentions: We trust each other and assume good intentions—we're transparent with decisions.

Benefits include:

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Remote work with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and monthly stipends for coworking spaces, phone, and internet.
• Equity: Stock options upon hire and promotion, secondary offerings, and 10 years to exercise options.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and reset.
• Paid Parental Leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.