Chainguard
Senior Product Security Engineer
$157K–$184K
United States - Remote +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- United States - Remote
Remote - US - Experience
- 5+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or a combined role with meaningful hands-on security responsibility throughout.
About the job
Designs and operates secure CI/CD pipelines, assesses product risk, and hardens Kubernetes-based workloads and cloud infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, security gates, and automated product risk capture.
- Implement software supply chain controls, including signed artifacts, SBOMs, and provenance attestations.
- Lead security architecture reviews and threat models, and harden containers, Kubernetes, and cloud IAM.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or a combined role with meaningful hands-on security responsibility.
- Strong proficiency in Go or Python and hands-on production Kubernetes experience.
- Practical expertise with GCP and/or AWS, and a track record designing and securing CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with container security and software supply chain security tooling and frameworks.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Chainguard Images or other minimal/hardened container base image ecosystems.
- Experience with policy-as-code tools (OPA, Kyverno, Conftest).
Pay
$157,000 — $184,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Python, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Tekton
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