security
Posted May 6Staff Product Security Engineer
at Chainguard
United KingdomRemote
Responsibilities
- Build & Harden Secure Pipelines
- Design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with security gates that catch issues before they reach production.
- Implement and enforce software supply chain security controls: signed artifacts, SBOMs, provenance attestation (SLSA, Sigstore / Cosign).
- Lead security architecture reviews and threat models for Kubernetes-based workloads running on GCP and AWS.
- Define and drive adoption of baseline security standards: pod security standards, network policies, workload identity, secrets management.
- Evaluate and operationalise CNAPP / CSPM tooling to maintain continuous visibility into cloud-native risk.
Requirements
- 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.
- Harden container images, Kubernetes cluster configurations, and cloud IAM postures — minimising attack surface across our product stack.
- Strong proficiency in Go or Python, with the ability to write, review, and debug production-quality code. Deep, hands-on
- experience with Kubernetes in production (cluster hardening, RBAC, network policies, admission controllers).
- Practical expertise with GCP and/or AWS: IAM, workload identity, secrets management, security services (e.g., GCP Security Command Center, AWS Security Hub).
- Proven track record designing and securing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Tekton, or similar).
- Fluency with container security: image scanning, distroless/minimal base images, runtime security. •
- Experience with software supply chain security tooling and frameworks (Sigstore, SLSA, SBOM generation).
- Solid understanding of OWASP, NIST, and cloud security frameworks and how to apply them pragmatically.
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- Familiarity with Chainguard Images or other minimal/hardened container base image ecosystems. •
- Experience with policy-as-code tools (OPA, Kyverno, Conftest).