# Staff Software Engineer, Chainguard Harness

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 At Chainguard we're focused on securing the software supply chain, and we're building the next generation of products at the intersection of security and AI. You'll join a small, fast-moving team building Chainguard Harness. Chainguard Harness uses frontier AI models to hunt down exploitable vulnerabilities in a customer's application, then delivers validated findings with recommended fixes, with no model access required. Customers trust us with their source code, so security isn't just a feature of this product. It is the product. As a Staff engineer y

- **Id**: 3846310
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/chainguard-staff-software-engineer-chainguard-harness>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T00:35:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T07:03:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7057
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Dental insurance, Equity, Flexible time off, Health insurance, Parental leave, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Application Security, DevSecOps, Vulnerability Management

## Company

- **Id**: 581
- **Name**: Chainguard
- **Domain**: chainguard.dev
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/chainguard>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.583
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 41
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 205000
- **Max**: 231000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 231000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Canva** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **KVM** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **QEMU** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **CVE** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes
- **GitLab** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T00:53:06Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 41
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 231000
- **Is top pay**: no

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