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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. \nOur customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.\nChainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.\nThe role in a nutshell:\nWe're looking for a Senior Security Engineer to engineer and secure our multi-cloud environment, the same cloud infrastructure that powers our product. This is a cloud-native, AI-obsessed company, and our cloud is the platform our product runs on. How we design, harden, and evolve it directly shapes what we can build and how fast we can build it safely. As open source software increasingly feeds AI agents as well as human engineers, securing that supply chain end-to-end is core to our mission. You'll formally report to the Sr Director of Cyber Resiliency and spend time embedded in project pods building alongside our product engineering partners. We're a late-stage startup, which means priorities, tooling, and scope can shift quickly. \nWhat you'll do:\nEngineer and maintain cloud environments built to be secure, resilient, and optimized for performance \nPartner hands-on with internal engineering teams to embed security into the architecture and tooling developers use every day\nWork closely with our IAM counterparts to design and enforce secure identity and access strategies across all cloud environments\nHarden cloud platforms against emerging threats while keeping them resilient and highly available\nLead cloud-centric disaster recovery exercises \nBring a DevOps mindset by building automation, pipelines, and guardrails using Terraform/IaC and Kubernetes \nHelp secure the infrastructure behind AI-driven pipelines and agentic workflows as they become a growing consumer of the software supply chain\nAct as a trusted advisor and collaborator to product engineering translating requirements into secure practical infrastructure that other teams will rapidly adopt\nAdapt architecture and priorities as the company scales, reworking plans as needs, tooling, or team structure shift\nAssist during relevant incident response investigations \nWhat we're looking for:\nOutstanding interpersonal and communication skills\nStrong, hands-on GCP or AWS engineering experience required\nExperience with Azure also a plus\nSolid DevOps background: comfortable using Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes (GKE), and CI/CD pipelines\nA track record of designing systems that are secure, resilient, and built to accelerate engineering velocity\nComfort with ambiguity and rapid change: prior experience at a fast-moving or late-stage startup is a strong plus\nBase Salary Range\n$137,000—$160,000 USD\nAbout Us\nWe live and breathe our company values:\nWe are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.\nWe have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.\nWe don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.\nWe trust each other and assume good intentions - We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.\nA few of the benefits we offer:\nFlexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.\n 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!).\n100% 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.\n∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need - to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.\n 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.\nIf your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring \"Chainguardians\" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.\nChainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.\nBy submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard's Global Candidate Privacy Notice.\n©2026 Chainguard. 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