Staff Security Analyst (Governance and Trust) - 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

Chainguard is building the secure foundation for software development and deployment. Our Governance & Trust team makes sure the security practices behind that mission are effective, measurable, and worthy of our customers' trust.

We're hiring a senior practitioner to lead the compliance and trust side of that team. You'll run the execution of our external examinations (SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, and a growing set of sector and regional certifications), own how we respond to customer security diligence, and run third-party risk operations. You'll lead the compliance and trust side of the team, which includes a public-sector compliance analyst and two customer-facing security analysts, with formal management of that group expected as the team grows.

This is not a checklist compliance role. Our operating model treats policies and controls as code, draws evidence from systems of record rather than screenshots, and uses AI agents for first-pass questionnaire responses and vendor triage. You'll be the person who decides what those systems need to produce, judges whether what they produce is right, and stands behind it with an auditor or a customer.

What You'll Do

• Run the execution of Chainguard's external examinations end to end: the evidence calendar, population and completeness-and-accuracy requests, sample fulfillment, auditor status calls, and readiness assessment ahead of each cycle. Work with the Head of Governance & Trust on scope, control applicability, and auditor negotiation.
• Build and keep the working relationships with People, IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, Legal, and Sales that evidence, populations, and remediation depend on.
• Own customer security diligence: security questionnaires, customer audits, Trust Center content, and multi-round assessments.
• Own the third-party risk management program: vendor intake and tiering, assessments, dispositions, and the register of critical suppliers and their agreements.
• Act as product owner for the customer-facing side of our agent platform: define questionnaire responder and vendor triage agent tasks, maintain the validated answer bank, and verify output quality.
• Turn recurring patterns across questionnaires, audits, and vendor reviews into standing artifacts, self-serve packages, and control improvements.
• Work from a single unified controls catalog across frameworks, pushing mapping and implementation defects back to the governance side.
• Produce findings and remediation evidence that survive external re-test, feeding the corrective-action process with root causes.
• Guide the public-sector compliance analyst's work on assessor relationships and customer-facing federal diligence.
• Own the outcomes that the compliance and trust sections of reporting to the CISO describe: what closed, what slipped, what it cost, and what it protected.
• Mentor the analysts on the team, give and receive feedback, and help build the team as it grows.

Nice to Have

• Lead auditee experience for combined SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 examinations (managing populations, sampling, completeness-and-accuracy, and auditor relationships).
• Fluency in regulated-industry customer diligence: SIG, CAIQ, DORA-style questionnaires, portal-mediated assessments, and customer audits.
• Experience running vendor risk assessments at volume inside a third-party risk program.
• An evidence-as-data mindset: comfort with populations defined by query, evidence drawn from identity/HR/cloud systems, and controls managed in Git.
• Experience working within a management system with a functioning corrective-action loop.
• Experience directing or mentoring junior practitioners and managing queues against metrics.
• Strong track record of building cross-functional relationships across teams.
• Comfort working in a distributed international environment across multiple time zones and regional compliance regimes (US, UK, EU).
• Strong judgment under examination pressure and clear writing skills for auditors, customers, and executives.

It Would Be Great If You Had

• Exposure to US public-sector requirements (FedRAMP, GovRAMP, CMMC) or UK/EU regimes (Cyber Essentials, UK GDPR, EU CRA, DORA).
• Experience migrating a program off a GRC platform, or building answer banks, trust packages, or response automation.
• Familiarity with ISO/IEC 42001 or AI governance.
• Understanding of software supply chain security concepts: SBOMs, signing, provenance, SLSA.
• CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor/Lead Implementer, or equivalent certification.

Why This Role Matters

Chainguard's customers are increasingly regulated, and the questions they ask are getting harder. This role decides how we answer them, and whether our answers hold up when an auditor tests them. You'll build the compliance and trust capability of a security company whose product is trust, with the runway to lead the team that runs it.

Compensation & Benefits

Base Salary Range: $151,000 - $178,000 USD

• 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.
• Equity: Stock options provided upon hire and promotion with a 10-year exercise window.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: 100% coverage for health, vision, and dental premiums for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Time Off: Unlimited flexible PTO policy.
• Paid Parental Leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.