Senior Security Engineer (Cyber Resiliency)

About the role

Help shape how the open source world defends itself while working with a high-trust, low-ego team that actually makes security fun. As a Senior Security Engineer on our Cyber Resiliency team, 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. A successful candidate will possess a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving abilities, relentless curiosity, and a team-first mentality.

Responsibilities

• Join a team of high character, high talent individuals
• Design, deploy and optimize innovative technical controls to detect and prevent security incidents
• Engineer custom detection logic, integrate threat intelligence, automate with SOAR, and design Agentic AI security operations playbooks
• Contribute to or lead incident response efforts, including tabletop exercises
• Collaborate across teams to integrate security best practices into products and processes
• Conduct thesis-driven threat hunts across forensic data lakes
• Continuously research the threat landscape and commit to your professional self-deployment with guaranteed work time and training budget
• This position includes rotational on-call responsibilities; the workload is reasonable and shared across the team

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Requirements

• Candidates who reflect the four company values (see below)
• Superb interpersonal and communication skills (No Assholes)
• A practiced technical investigative mindset
• Experience securing cloud-native environments
• Experience with cloud and endpoint security operations
• Bias for macOS or Linux technology
• Passion for all things AI
• Threat intelligence savvy
• Ability to work independently across multiple simultaneous work streams
• Cloud 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
• 5+ years of experience in software development, information security, or IT engineering or combination of the three
• Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Security, or Information Systems preferred but not required

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Pay

Base Salary Range: $130,000—$150,000 USD