Staff Product Security Engineer

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

📋 Description

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

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

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

• Recognize emerging customer security requirements and create solutions to address them.

• Lead security architecture evaluations and threat modeling for Kubernetes-based workloads operating on GCP and AWS.

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

• Establish and promote the adoption of fundamental security standards, such as pod security standards, network policies, workload identity, and secrets management.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

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

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

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

• Proficiency in container security, covering image scanning, distroless/minimal base images, and runtime security.

• Experience with software supply chain security tools and frameworks, including Sigstore, SLSA, and SBOM generation.

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

• Familiarity with Chainguard Images or other minimal/hardened container base image ecosystems.

• Experience with policy-as-code tools such as OPA, Kyverno, or Conftest.

• Contributions to open source security initiatives.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with options for team meetups, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet expenses.

• Receive stock options upon hiring and promotion.

• Participation in secondary offerings.

• 10 years to exercise stock options.

• 100% coverage of health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents.

• Unlimited flexible time off.

• 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents.

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.

• Option to utilize parental leave all at once or spread it throughout the child's first year.