Remote Senior Product Security Researcher Threat Architect

Chainguard; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible & Remote-First Culture

Stock options on hire and promotion

100% Covered Health Insurance (you and

Dependents health coverage

Flexible Time Off

18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Chainguard is seeking a Principal Product Security Researcher to lead our product security research end-to-end, coordinating threat intel, strategy, and cross-functional execution. You will shape security direction across products, work with Product, Engineering and Security leadership, and influence long-term roadmaps.

You will also represent Chainguard in industry forums and help advance security practices across the team.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product or application security with threat research leadership.
• Ability to translate threats into concrete security roadmaps.
• Track record of influencing executive-level decisions.
• Comfort turning ambiguous problems into structured initiatives.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Research emerging threats and trends in software supply chain and product security for Chainguard’s products and customers.
• Design mitigations across people, process, and technology that are practical and adoption-ready.
• Partner with executive and senior engineering leadership to drive security strategy and secure buy-in for major changes.
• Identify systematic weaknesses and develop root-cause fixes that persist over time.
• Mentor and uplevel teams across Product Security and Engineering to think strategically about threats and risk.
• Represent Chainguard externally through talks and thought leadership.

Skills

Threat modeling

Product security

Security leadership

Executive communication

Mentoring

Job description

Chainguard is seeking a Principal Product Security Researcher to lead our product security research end-to-end, coordinating threat intel, strategy, and cross-functional execution. You will shape security direction across products, work with Product, Engineering and Security leadership, and influence long-term roadmaps.

You will also represent Chainguard in industry forums and help advance security practices across the team.