Staff Product Security Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and sustain secure CI/CD pipelines equipped with security gates that detect issues prior to production.

• Methodically, consistently, and automatically assess the risk exposure of Chainguard products.

• Implement and uphold software supply chain security measures, including signed artifacts, SBOMs, and provenance attestation utilizing SLSA and Sigstore/Cosign.

• Recognize emerging customer security requirements and develop solutions to meet them.

• Direct security architecture reviews and threat modeling for Kubernetes-based workloads on GCP and AWS.

• Strengthen container images, Kubernetes cluster configurations, and cloud IAM settings to reduce the attack surface.

• Establish and promote the adoption of baseline security standards, including pod security standards, network policies, workload identity, and secrets management.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering, security engineering, or a related role with significant hands-on security responsibilities.

• Strong expertise in Go or Python, with the capability to write, review, and debug production-quality code.

• Extensive hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, including cluster hardening, RBAC, network policies, and admission controllers.

• Practical knowledge of GCP and/or AWS, covering IAM, workload identity, secrets management, and security services.

• Proven experience in designing and securing CI/CD pipelines, such as GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or Tekton.

• Proficient in container security, including image scanning, distroless/minimal base images, and runtime security.

• Familiarity with software supply chain security tools and frameworks, such as Sigstore, SLSA, and SBOM generation.

• Strong understanding of OWASP, NIST, and cloud security frameworks and their practical application.

• Knowledge of Chainguard Images or other minimal/hardened container base image ecosystems.

• Experience with policy-as-code tools like OPA, Kyverno, and Conftest.

• Contributions to open source security projects.

• Background in security research or offensive security, including bug bounty, CTF, or penetration testing.

🏝️ Benefits

• 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.

• Receive stock options upon hire and promotion.

• Participation in secondary offerings.

• 10 years to exercise stock options.

• 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for the employee and dependents.

• ∞ Flexible Time Off.

• 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, usable all at once or throughout the child's first year.