Senior Product Manager — Malware Detection Platform

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 205,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly culture

Stock options

Health insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Chainguard is building the most trusted source for open source software. As Senior Product Manager for Malware Detection, you’ll own detection quality, platform strategy, and the customer experience around scanning, partnering with Engineering and Product Security to define how organizations evaluate software trust in an AI-driven world.

You’ll own detection quality and the scanner platform roadmap, expanding malware detection across libraries, containers, and agent skills, while balancing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, focused on developer tools, infrastructure, security, or platform products.
• Experience owning technically complex platforms or backend infrastructure used by multiple products or internal customers.
• Strong understanding of software supply chain security, malware detection, vulnerability management, or adjacent security domains.

Responsibilities

• Own detection quality metrics: coverage, precision, and delivery.
• Define the roadmap for a shared scanner platform and scale it across product types.
• Expand malware detection capabilities and identify emerging threats with security teams.
• Shape the customer experience: policy management, enforcement, and enterprise-scale operations.

Skills

Product management

Platform ownership

Security knowledge

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Chainguard is building the most trusted source for open source software. As Senior Product Manager for Malware Detection, you’ll own detection quality, platform strategy, and the customer experience around scanning, partnering with Engineering and Product Security to define how organizations evaluate software trust in an AI-driven world.

You’ll own detection quality and the scanner platform roadmap, expanding malware detection across libraries, containers, and agent skills, while balancing