Security Engineer, Chainguard
Cyber Resiliency
$105-123k
+ Stock options
Software supply chain security
Be an early applicant
Software supply chain security
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$105-123k
+ Stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the software supply chain secure by default.
Role
Who you are
- A successful candidate will possess a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving abilities, relentless curiosity, and a team first mentality
- 3+ years of experience in software development, security, or combination of the two
- Experience securing Cloud-native environments
- Experience with endpoint detection and response
- Familiarity with macOS or Linux security controls
- Ability to work independently across multiple simultaneous work streams
- Digital forensics and incident response knowledge, skills, and experience
- Ability to craft automation with languages such as Go, Python, or Shell
- Offensive security and or open-source software development a plus
- Investigative mindset
- Superb interpersonal and communication skills (no assholes)
- Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Security, Information Systems
What the job involves
- As a Security Engineer, your role will be to enable Chainguardians to do their best work through collaborative low-friction Information Security
- You will work closely with the security team and collaborate with teams across the company to improve our security posture and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations
- Design and deploy innovative technical controls to detect and prevent security incidents
- Contribute to incident response efforts, including tabletop exercises
- Collaborate across teams to integrate security best practices into products and processes
- Deploy and optimize detection and response automation
- Continuously research the latest security threats
- This position includes rotational on-call responsibilities; Not brutal- the workload is reasonable and shared across the team
Our take
Developers rely on open source code and apps in their day to day work, but when the provenance of the code is unknown this creates potential weaknesses that cybercriminals can exploit. Chainguard exists to build security into the coding supply chain by making it possible for companies to enforce security policies based on auditable signatures baked into the code.
In the wake of huge cyber attacks, software supply chain security has been an area of major focus. However, most of this has surrounded the scanning and detection of threats. Chainguard's approach comes from the other end of the process, focusing on building security into the software itself.
Built by former engineers who are aware of developer workloads, Chainguard is designed to be easily installed and integrated into existing automation systems. The company has secured substantial funding, the latest of which will support more aggressive product and R&D spending as it looks to further boost sales.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2025
$280m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Apr 2025
$356m
SERIES D
Total funding: $892m
Company benefits
- Equity/stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
- Home office and internet stipend
- 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family
Company HQ
Everest, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
Dan Lorenc
(CEO & Co-Founder)Before co-founding Chainguard was a Software Engineer at Google, Disqus and Microsoft.
Kim Lewandowski
(CSO & Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Chainguard was a Product Manager with Google. Before that was the Head of Product & Engineering at Brit + Co and the founder of Spotwag.
Matthew Moore
(CTO & Co-Founder)Was a Software Engineer at VMware, Google and Microsoft.
Ville Aikas
(Distinguished Engineer & Co-founder)Was a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and a Software Engineer for Google and the University of Washingtom. Was previously Owner at VA Systems.
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