Senior Security Engineer (Infrastructure)

Chainguard

• $137K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in security engineering, especially in cloud environments
  • Hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Familiarity with Azure is an advantageous plus
  • Solid understanding of DevOps principles and practices, particularly with Terraform/IaC and Kubernetes
  • Proven ability to design secure and resilient systems that enhance engineering efficiency
  • Experience working in fast-paced or late-stage startups, showcasing adaptability

Responsibilities

  • Engineer and maintain secure, resilient, and high-performance cloud environments
  • Collaborate closely with internal engineering teams to integrate security into daily architecture and tools
  • Develop secure identity and access strategies in partnership with IAM teams
  • Harden cloud platforms against threats while ensuring high availability
  • Lead disaster recovery drills with a focus on cloud-centric solutions
  • Implement automation and guardrails using Terraform/IaC and Kubernetes with a DevOps mindset
  • Secure the infrastructure for AI-driven pipelines and workflows

Benefits

  • Flexible & remote-first work culture with team meetups and coworking stipends
  • Equity offering with stock options and a 10-year exercise window
  • 100% coverage of health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and their dependents
  • Unlimited flexible time off to support work-life balance and recharge
  • Comprehensive parental leave policy with 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
Full Job Description
The role in a nutshell:

We're looking for a Senior 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 is the platform our product runs on. 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. You'll formally report to the Sr Director of Cyber Resiliency and spend time embedded in project pods building alongside our product engineering partners. We're a late-stage startup, which means priorities, tooling, and scope can shift quickly.

What you'll do:
  • Engineer 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 secure identity and access strategies across all cloud environments
  • Harden cloud platforms against emerging threats while keeping them resilient and highly available
  • Lead cloud-centric disaster recovery exercises
  • 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 to product engineering translating requirements into secure practical infrastructure that other teams will rapidly adopt
  • 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:
  • Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
  • Strong, hands-on GCP or AWS engineering experience required
  • Experience with Azure also a plus
  • Solid DevOps background: comfortable using Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes (GKE), and CI/CD pipelines
  • A track record of designing systems that are secure, resilient, and built to accelerate engineering velocity
  • Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change: prior experience at a fast-moving or late-stage startup is a strong plus


Base Salary Range

$137,000-$160,000 USD

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.

If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

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