Senior Security Engineer (Cloud)

Chainguard; United States; On-site; USD 137,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible & Remote‑First Culture

Equity and stock options

100% Covered Health Insurance

Flexible Time Off

18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Chainguard is seeking a Sr Security Engineer to secure a multi-cloud environment (primarily GCP with AWS/Azure). This cloud-native, AI-focused company builds secure, scalable platforms to accelerate innovation and protect the software supply chain.

You will partner with Developer Platform and IAM teams, design identity strategies, and implement Terraform/IaC pipelines to harden environments and improve resilience.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on GCP administration
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure is a plus
• Solid DevOps background with Terraform/IaC and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with software supply chain security concepts (SLSA) is a plus
• Experience securing AI/ML infrastructure or agentic workflows
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain secure cloud environments
• Embed security into architecture and tooling with Developers
• Design and enforce identity and access strategies across cloud environments
• Harden cloud platforms against threats while ensuring high availability
• Build automation, pipelines, and guardrails using Terraform/IaC and Kubernetes
• Secure AI-driven pipelines and AI agent workflows
• Translate security requirements into adoptable designs across teams
• Help set long-term architectural vision for scaling security
• Adapt architecture as the company grows and priorities shift
• Assist during incident response investigations

Skills

GCP administration

AWS/Azure

Terraform/IaC

Kubernetes

CI/CD

SLSA knowledge

AI/ML infra

communication

multi-cloud

security architecture

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

United States - Remote

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

The Role In a Nutshell

We're looking for a Sr Security Engineer to engineer and secure our multi‑cloud environment — the same cloud infrastructure that powers our product. This is a cloud‑native, AI‑obsessed company, and our cloud isn't just internal plumbing: it's the platform our product runs on, so how we design, harden, and evolve it directly shapes what we can build and how fast we can build it safely. As open source software increasingly feeds AI agents as well as human engineers, securing that supply chain end‑to‑end is core to our mission — and this role sits right at that intersection. You'll report to the Director of Cyber Resiliency and partner closely with our Developer Platform and IAM teams to make sure every cloud environment we operate — primarily GCP, with AWS and Azure in the mix — is resilient, well‑architected, and built to accelerate secure innovation rather than slow it down. Let us know if bonfires are your jam! We're a late‑stage startup, which means priorities, tooling, and scope can shift quickly — you'll need to be energized by that pace rather than worn down by it. Like every Chainguardian, you'll take the work seriously without taking yourself too seriously, and default to good intentions in how you work with others.

What You’ll Do

• Architect and maintain cloud environments built to be secure, resilient, and optimized for performance
• Partner hands‑on with the Developer Platform team to embed security into the architecture and tooling developers use every day
• Work closely with our IAM counterparts to design and enforce identity and access strategies across all cloud environments
• Harden cloud platforms against emerging threats while keeping them resilient and highly available
• Bring a DevOps mindset — 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 across engineering, translating security requirements into practical, adoptable designs that other teams actually want to use — sharing context generously and putting shared outcomes ahead of individual credit
• Help set the long‑term architectural vision for how our cloud environments scale securely
• Adapt architecture and priorities as the company scales — reworking plans as needs, tooling, or team structure shift
• Assist during relevant incident response investigations

What We’re Looking For

• Strong, hands‑on GCP administrative experience — this is a must‑have, not a nice‑to‑have
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure is a plus
• Solid DevOps background — comfort with Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes (GKE), and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with software supply chain security concepts particularly SLSA is a strong plus
• Experience securing or architecting AI/ML infrastructure or agentic workflows
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills — you'll plan, coordinate, and build consensus with the Developer Platform team, IAM stakeholders, and other partners across the org
• Staff‑level experience architecting and securing complex, multi‑cloud environments
• Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change — prior experience at a fast‑moving or late‑stage startup is a strong plus
• A track record of designing systems that are secure, resilient, and built to accelerate — not slow down — engineering velocity

Base Salary Range

$137,000—$160,000 USD

About Us

We live and breathe our company values:

• We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
• We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A Few Of The Benefits We Offer

• 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.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your 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 – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks 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.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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