Chainguard
Principal Product Security Engineer
United Kingdom - Remote +1 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Location
- United Kingdom - Remote
Remote - US - Experience
- 10+ years in software, product, or application security.
About the job
Sets product security direction and leads cross-functional programs to reduce risk across Chainguard’s products and platforms.
What you'll do
- Define security strategy and guardrails, including for AI-assisted development, and embed security into product roadmaps and engineering workflows.
- Lead initiatives for secure SDLC, vulnerability reduction and remediation automation, and security assurance programs.
- Advise senior leaders, mentor security engineers, and translate threats and compliance frameworks into practical controls.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in software, product, or application security, owning complex products or platforms.
- Deep expertise in secure architecture and system design for cloud-native or distributed systems, including authentication, authorization, and defense-in-depth.
- Experience driving organization-wide security programs and risk management from design through rollout.
- Hands-on familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, public cloud, security compliance frameworks, security automation in at least one language, and CI/CD integration.
Nice to have
- Background in software supply-chain security, including SBOMs, SLSA, provenance, signing, or build-system hardening.
- Red-teaming or offensive security experience, or open-source development in security-sensitive projects.
Tools
Kubernetes, Go, Python, Shell, CI/CD, STIGs, CIS, SOC 2
AI focus
Define security guardrails for AI-assisted development across design, coding, testing, review, deployment, and operations; experience with AI SDLC programs is sought.
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