# Senior Security Engineer

**Company:** [Chainguard](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chainguard)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $137k – $160k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** GCP, AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, GKE, CI/CD, slsa, iac, DevOps
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Senior Security Engineer responsible for architecting and securing Chainguard's multi-cloud infrastructure (primarily GCP), embedding security into developer platforms, and hardening environments for AI/agentic workflows using IaC and Kubernetes. Requires strong GCP expertise, DevOps background, and staff-level cloud security experience.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

- Architect and maintain cloud environments built to be secure, resilient, and optimized for performance
- Partner hands-on with the Developer Platform team 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 — 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 — sharing context generously and putting shared outcomes ahead of individual credit
- Help set the long-term architectural vision for how our cloud environments scale securely
- 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

- Strong, hands-on GCP administrative experience — this is a must-have, not a nice-to-have
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure is a plus
- Solid DevOps background — comfort with Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes (GKE), and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with software supply chain security concepts particularly SLSA is a strong plus
- Experience securing or architecting AI/ML infrastructure or agentic workflows
- 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
- Staff-level experience architecting and securing complex, multi-cloud environments
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change — prior experience at a fast-moving or late-stage startup is a strong plus
- A track record of designing systems that are secure, resilient, and built to accelerate — not slow down — engineering velocity

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