Job description
The role:
The board is set and the pieces are moving. You’re here to build a legacy of security excellence as Chainguard scales at hyperspeed.
You will champion the adoption of cutting-edge security practices and technology. You will foster a culture of excellence, optimism, and transparency around cybersecurity.
Your role is to lead some of our most strategic initiatives in security. If you’re a leader who can outthink adversaries several moves ahead, navigate complex scenarios, and energize a team that delights in checking every cyber threat, we should talk.
What you’ll do:
- Lead, mentor, and coach our trailblazing threat detection and response (TDR) team. Can you lead this talented team to new heights?
- Own and evolve incident readiness: Design best-in-class 24⁄7 detection and lightning-fast response processes that leave attackers looking for easier targets.
- Supercharge our detection toolset. Assess and implement the latest defense tech (traditional and new school) so we can detect, disrupt, and contain threats at machine speed before your second coffee.
- Work cross-functionally to weave security best practices into every nook and cranny of our engineering, product, and tech pipeline.
- Engage externally with partners, customers, and auditors, representing Chainguard’s security posture and communicating with calm confidence even on “interesting” days.
- Stay plugged in to the wild world of threat intelligence, new adversary tactics, and all the cutting-edge tricks. Channel that knowledge to inform strategy and strengthen our defenses.
- Ensure what we do lines up with all the right security frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, and friends). Help organize risk management, compliance, and audit activities without succumbing to acronym overload.
What we’re looking for:
- You’ve led high-performing TDR, SOC, or threat hunting teams especially in cloud-native or enterprise settings. If you have stories about cloud incidents that end happily ever after, we’re listening.
- You bring hands-on experience designing and scaling detection and prevention mechanisms in AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern CI/CD land.
- Incident response, cloud forensics, and tracking down sneaky modern-day digital troublemakers aren’t just on your resume they fuel your curiosity.
- Communication is your superpower. You can translate “zero day” into “don’t worry” for execs, engineers, and customers alike.
- Leadership for you means inspiring optimism, building trust, and making your team feel empowered.
- Intrinsic curiosity, proactive action, and the ability to juggle multiple projects are your bread and butter. Multitasking stress dreams? You call those “Thursday.”
- Bonus points for automation chops (Go, Python, Shell, or a script of your own invention) and enthusiasm for compliance checklists. You may be on a first-name basis with various frameworks.
Base Salary Range
$195,000—$220,000 USD
About Us
Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.
Founded by the industry’s leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.
Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.
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.
A few of the benefits we offer:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a $400 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.
- For a full list of our benefits and rewards, click here.
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.
Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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