Chainguard
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Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
United States only
From the listing details: Source listing states candidate location: "United States - Remote, Remote - US"
Employer listed it 4 weeks ago · Added 5 weeks ago
Been open since 5 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
$137k to $160k per year
Location
United States only
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
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Base Salary Range
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "United States - Remote, Remote - US"
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- Residency required in United States
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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Before you apply
Experience: employer states
Written as a requirement
- “Strong, hands-on GCP or AWS engineering experience required”
Written as a nice-to-have
- “Experience with Azure also a plus”
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About the role
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:
We'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.
What you'll do:
Engineer and maintain cloud environments built to be secure, resilient, and optimized for performance
Partner hands-on with internal engineering teams to embed security into the architecture and tooling developers use every day
Work closely with our IAM counterparts to design and enforce secure identity and access strategies across all cloud environments
Harden cloud platforms against emerging threats while keeping them resilient and highly available
Lead cloud-centric disaster recovery exercises
Bring a DevOps mindset by building automation, pipelines, and guardrails using Terraform/IaC and Kubernetes
Help secure the infrastructure behind AI-driven pipelines and agentic workflows as they become a growing consumer of the software supply chain
Act as a trusted advisor and collaborator to product engineering translating requirements into secure practical infrastructure that other teams will rapidly adopt
Adapt architecture and priorities as the company scales, reworking plans as needs, tooling, or team structure shift
Assist during relevant incident response investigations
What we're looking for:
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
Strong, hands-on GCP or AWS engineering experience required
Experience with Azure also a plus
Solid DevOps background: comfortable using Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes (GKE), and CI/CD pipelines
A track record of designing systems that are secure, resilient, and built to accelerate engineering velocity
Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change: prior experience at a fast-moving or late-stage startup is a strong plus
Base Salary Range
$137,000 — $160,000 USD
About Us
Requirements
- ·Strong, hands-on GCP or AWS engineering experience required
- ·Experience with Azure also a plus
- ·Solid DevOps background: comfortable using Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes (GKE), and CI/CD pipelines
- ·A track record of designing systems that are secure, resilient, and built to accelerate engineering velocity
- ·Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change: prior experience at a fast-moving or late-stage startup is a strong plus
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.
- ·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!).
- ·100% 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.
- ·∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- ·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.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Chainguard, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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