Staff Product Security Engineer

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.

Staff Product Security Engineer

Remote: United States, UK, Canada

The role, in a nutshell

At Chainguard, our security posture is our competitive advantage. As a Staff Product Security Engineer, you will help make secure-by-default development a reality across our products and engineering organization.

You will lead high-impact, cross-functional security initiatives; partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Security leadership; and turn complex risks into practical, shippable improvements. A key focus of this role is the AI SDLC: establishing the policies, tooling, and guardrails that enable engineers to use AI responsibly and do the right thing by default—from design and coding through testing, review, deployment, and operations.

This is a hands-on staff-level role for someone who can operate independently, influence multiple teams without direct authority, and raise the security maturity of the organization through both technical execution and strong partnership.

What you’ll do

Drive product security strategy and execution across multiple products, platforms, and engineering teams.

Lead the evolution of Chainguard’s secure SDLC, with particular emphasis on the AI SDLC and the changing risks of AI-assisted development.

Define and implement practical guardrails for AI use in engineering, including secure patterns, policy, workflow controls, review practices, and automation that help teams move quickly while using AI responsibly.

Partner with Engineering to embed security controls into the full development lifecycle, including architecture, design, coding, testing, code review, deployment, and operations.

Lead secure architecture reviews and threat-modeling efforts for high-impact systems; identify systemic weaknesses early and guide teams toward scalable mitigations.

Own cross-functional initiatives such as vulnerability reduction, security automation, and secure-by-default engineering improvements.

Partner with Engineering to automate vulnerability detection, triage and remediation, including policy-as-code and cloud or container security controls.

Champion the adoption of security tooling—including static and dynamic analysis, dependency and license checks, infrastructure-as-code scanners, and AI-related controls—within developer workflows and CI/CD.

Improve how Chainguard runs and consumes security assurance activities such as penetration tests, vulnerability assessments, bug bounty programs, and red-team exercises so findings result in lasting improvements.

Translate frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and SLSA into durable, automation-friendly engineering controls.

Stay current on emerging threats, software supply-chain risks, and AI security developments, and turn them into concrete changes to our controls, tooling, and product direction.

Influence senior stakeholders through clear risk framing, trade-off analysis, and pragmatic recommendations.

Mentor Product Security Engineers and help raise the security bar across the engineering organization.

What we’re looking for

7+ years of experience in software, product, application, or cloud security.

Experience driving security programs from design through rollout, such as secure SDLC, AI SDLC, vulnerability management, platform hardening, or security automation.