[Remote] Senior Security Engineer (Infrastructure)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to secure and evolve the multi-cloud infrastructure that powers its product. The role partners with product engineering to build resilient cloud environments, embed security into infrastructure and workflows, and protect software supply chains and AI-driven pipelines.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong, hands-on GCP or AWS engineering experience required
• 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
• Experience with Azure also a plus
• 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.
• Receive stock options upon hire and promotion.
• You can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options.
• 100% covered 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.
• 18 weeks paid parental leave 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.

Company Overview

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