Chainguard
chainguard.dev
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Vulnerability Management
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Application Security
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$496M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$356M
Series D · Apr 2025 · 17 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
77
+31 posted in 30 days
Backers
10
Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst
The money's age
Due for its next round
17 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
26/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 14
First role in Denmark Enterprise Sales Engineer - Denmark
Sep 9
First role in Australia Manager, Enterprise Business Development - APJ
Aug 7
First role in India Enterprise Account Executive
Aug 5
First role in France Enterprise Sales Engineer - France
Jul 13
First role in Sweden Enterprise Account Executive - Nordics
Apr 30
First role in Netherlands Commercial Account Executive - Benelux
Apr 28
First role in Canada Senior Software Engineer, Containers
Apr 28
First role in United Kingdom Senior Software Engineer, Containers
Apr 24, 2025
Raised a round Series D $356M · Pulse 2.0
Jul 29, 2024
Raised a round Series C $140M · led by Redpoint Ventures · Pulse 2.0
Jul 7, 2022
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: tlogistry.dev: Transparently Immutable Tags Using Sigstore's Rekor
2021
Founded
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | Apr 2025 | $356M | — | Pulse 2.0 |
| Series C | Jul 2024 | $140M | Redpoint Ventures lead, Lightspeed Venture Partners lead, IVP lead | Pulse 2.0 |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Kleiner Perkins 
General Catalyst 
137 Ventures 
Amplifypartners 
IVP 
K5 Global 
Lightspeed Venture Partners 
Redpoint Ventures 
Sequoia Capital 
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How Chainguard hires
Truth index
B 78/100
Median time to fill
42 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
88%
Reposted roles
0%
Chainguard scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 88% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 42 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Chainguard is an American software supply chain security company founded in 2021 by engineers who had worked on Google's internal software provenance systems and on the Sigstore signing project. It publishes container images and language libraries rebuilt from source with no known vulnerabilities, continuously updated and shipped with cryptographic provenance, which addresses the practical problem that most enterprise containers ship with hundreds of unpatched components. Headquartered in New York and backed at a multi-billion dollar valuation, it sells largely to regulated enterprises and government agencies facing software bill of materials requirements.
News
Chainguard Agent Skills matures
Chainguard is expanding its push to secure the fast-growing world of AI coding agents with a new public registry of
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Chainguard's new Athena coalition uses AI to fix open-source flaws - before attackers exploit them
Open-source security has a new AI problem. But Chainguard has a plan, and plenty of friends, to help
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Chainguard, BNY Team Up to Secure Open Source from AI Threats
Athena is a new an industry coalition to fix the vulnerabilities frontier AI models find before attackers can exploit them
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Can Chainguard Save Open-Source Software From Mythos? Can Anyone?
Last week, IBM and Red Hat launched Project Lightwell to protect open-source projects with $5 billion and 20 thousand engineers.
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Perplexity launches Bumblebee: How its new read-only dev scanner differs from Chainguard
The AI company's Bumblebee tool tackles your most urgent question after any supply-chain advisory: Do your programmers have this malware installed?
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Docker Hodgepodge Images
Docker ships their own Linux distro, they just pretend not to. Learn how misidentification and VEX usage can mislead scanners and impact supply chain security.
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Open source died in March. It just doesn't know it yet.
Five supply chain attacks in 12 days exposed a broken trust model. Learn why scanning and hardening fail, and why trusting the source is the only fix.
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March 24, 2026 AI is supercharging hackers. These 4 startups are using AI to fight back
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Chainguard is racing to fix trust in AI-built software - here's how
Chainguard is expanding beyond open-source security to protect open-core software, AI agent skills, and GitHub Actions.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Chainguard over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
85
Postings analysed
166
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Go28%
Python14%
JavaScript10%
C++4%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch2%
TensorFlow2%
Material UI1%
React.js1%
Databases
Snowflake100%
Google BigQuery2%
BigQuery1%
MySQL1%
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI99%
Kubernetes51%
AWS35%
GCP33%
AI & ML
LLM4%
Claude1%
ChatGPT1%
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Full Chainguard tech stack
85 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$197k
Typical range
$74k – $350k
Open positions
40
36
Jobs
Middle
22.2%
Senior
47.2%
Staff
22.2%
Architect
8.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 8 | $275k | $125k – $325k |
| Senior | 17 | $184k | $130k – $275k |
| Staff | 8 | $231k | $231k – $350k |
| Architect | 3 | $195k | $195k – $240k |
Highest paying role
Public Sector Account Executive - Civilian
$350k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Chainguard
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Products
Enforce and Compliance
Policy and reporting tools that show which artefacts are in use and how each was built. The evidence rather than the security improvement is often what the buyer is actually procuring, because auditors ask for documents.
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Chainguard VMs
Minimal virtual machine images built on the same principles as the container products. It extends the approach to workloads that cannot be containerised, which in regulated environments is still most of them.
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Provenance and Attestation
Cryptographic signing and build attestation for every artefact the company publishes. American federal requirements now oblige agencies to demand this evidence, which is essentially what created the market the company sells into.
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Chainguard Libraries
Language dependencies for Java, Python and JavaScript rebuilt from source with verified provenance. Package repositories are the most exposed point in a software supply chain, and rebuilding removes trust in whoever uploaded a binary.
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Chainguard Images
Minimal container images rebuilt from source and maintained at zero known vulnerabilities. Reducing what is in an image is the actual mechanism, since a component that was never included cannot need patching.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
84/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
76
29 opened / 39 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
41 days
faster than 32% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
24% ▲
Backend
21%
Security
13% ▼
Solutions
12% ▼
Product
8% ▼
Marketing
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Sales (+11 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Amazon EKS to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Washington
Sep 2026
Added PostgreSQL to stack
Sep 2026
Added MySQL to stack
Sep 2026
Added Helm to stack
Sep 2026
Removed Rest API from stack
Sep 2026
Added EU AI Act to stack
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added OWASP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added eBPF to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tableau to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
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Countries
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Hybrid - NYC
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Regional office
Remote - Israel
Jobs
$205k – $231k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp • PhD • United States
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≈ $76k – $153k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (Canada) • 3+ years exp • PhD • Canada
Snowflake
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OpenAI
DevOps
Azure
AWS
Docker
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up to $195k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • United States
Snowflake
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OpenAI
DevOps
Kubernetes
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$205k – $231k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp • PhD • United States
Snowflake
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OpenAI
Design
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≈ $74k – $151k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (Canada) • PhD • Canada
Snowflake
AI/ML
Prompt Engineering
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OpenAI
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$110k – $130k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • PhD • United States
Snowflake
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Prompt Engineering
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OpenAI
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$157k – $184k per year • Equity • Remote (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada) • 3+ years exp • PhD • Canada • Germany • United Kingdom • United States
Snowflake
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
OpenAI
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Helm
AWS
Kubernetes
Linux
Cybersecurity
SLSA
Sigstore
Design
Canva
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$205k – $231k per year • Equity • Remote (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada) • 5+ years exp • PhD • Canada • Germany • United Kingdom • United States
Snowflake
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
OpenAI
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Helm
AWS
Kubernetes
Linux
Cybersecurity
SLSA
Sigstore
Design
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≈ $104k – $194k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United Kingdom) • 5+ years exp • PhD • United Kingdom
Go
Snowflake
AI/ML
AI Agents
OpenAI
DevOps
Kubernetes
Design
Canva
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$205k – $231k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • PhD • United States
Go
Snowflake
AI/ML
AI Agents
OpenAI
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
Kubernetes
Design
Canva
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≈ $123k – $218k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (Canada) • PhD • Canada
Go
Snowflake
AI/ML
AI Agents
OpenAI
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
Kubernetes
Design
Canva
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≈ $82k – $219k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (Denmark) • 3+ years exp • PhD • Denmark
Snowflake
AI/ML
AI Agents
OpenAI
DevOps
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Design
Canva
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