[Remote] Senior Security Engineer (Cloud)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software. They are seeking a Senior Security Engineer to engineer and secure their multi-cloud environment, ensuring resilience and security while facilitating innovation.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain cloud environments built to be secure, resilient, and optimized for performance
• Partner hands-on with internal engineering teams 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 by 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
• Adapt architecture and priorities as the company scales, reworking plans as needs, tooling, or team structure shift
• Assist during relevant incident response investigations

Skills

• Strong, hands-on GCP administrative experience
• Solid DevOps background: comfortable using Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes (GKE), and CI/CD pipelines
• 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
• Proven experience architecting and securing complex, multi-cloud environments
• A track record of designing systems that are secure, resilient, and built to accelerate engineering velocity
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure is a plus
• Familiarity with software supply chain security concepts particularly SLSA is a strong plus
• Experience securing or architecting AI/ML infrastructure or agentic workflows
• Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change: prior experience at a fast-moving or late-stage startup is a strong plus

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.
• 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.

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