Chainguard

Staff Security Engineer

Chainguard

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $190,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Engineer and deploy clever controls so security incidents stay rare and boring
  • Lead incident response efforts, security tool deployments including tabletop exercises
  • Apply digital forensics and incident response knowledge, skills, and experience toward in-depth security investigations on both hardware endpoint and multi-cloud environments
  • Engineer security best practices with product teams who appreciate memes as much as mitigations
  • Experience with Go, Python, or Shell, mostly so you can spend less time yelling at logs and more time celebrating wins
  • Embrace artificial intelligence and automation in order to protect the enterprise at machine speed
  • Stay one step ahead of emerging security threats by continuously consuming threat intelligence and related industry happenings
  • This position includes rotational on-call responsibilities; Not brutal- the workload is reasonable and shared across the team.

Requirements

  • 8+ years’ experience in software development, security, or a related field
  • Experience and passion identifying, developing, and integrating threat intelligence into meaningful detection engineering and preventative controls
  • Engineer and or forensic experience securing cloud-native environments
  • Scripting experience
  • Familiarity with macOS or Linux security controls
  • Practiced investigative mindset skills and experience
  • Fluidity with both independent and group work
  • Leading projects and people to successful outcomes with minimal supervision
  • Experience with security frameworks: SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST
  • Experience with open source software or offensive security is a plus highly desired
  • Boundless technical curiosity
  • Model interpersonal and communication excellence (no assholes)
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.
  • 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.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
GoPythonShelldigital forensicsincident responsescriptingcloud-native securitysecurity frameworksopen source softwareoffensive security
Soft skills
investigative mindsetindependent workgroup workproject leadershipcommunication excellencetechnical curiosity
Certifications
SOC 2ISO 27001NIST