Product Security
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.
Staff Product Security Engineer
Remote: United States, UK, Canada
The role, in a nutshell
At Chainguard, our security posture is our competitive advantage. As a Staff Product Security Engineer, you will help make secure-by-default development a reality across our products and engineering organization.
You will lead high-impact, cross-functional security initiatives; partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Security leadership; and turn complex risks into practical, shippable improvements. A key focus of this role is the AI SDLC: establishing the policies, tooling, and guardrails that enable engineers to use AI responsibly and do the right thing by default—from design and coding through testing, review, deployment, and operations.
This is a hands-on staff-level role for someone who can operate independently, influence multiple teams without direct authority, and raise the security maturity of the organization through both technical execution and strong p