# Senior Security Engineer

**Company:** [Chainguard](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chainguard)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $130k – $150k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, Shell, Soar, Threat Intelligence, Cloud Forensics, Incident Response, Cloud Security, Endpoint Security, macOS, Linux
**Posted:** 2026-06-12

> Senior Security Engineer on the Cyber Resiliency team designing detection controls, engineering SOAR/AI playbooks, leading incident response, and conducting threat hunts to strengthen Chainguard's security posture.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do
- Design, deploy and optimize innovative technical controls to detect and prevent security incidents
- Engineer custom detection logic, integrate threat intelligence, automate with SOAR, and design Agentic AI security operations playbooks
- Contribute or lead incident response efforts, including tabletop exercises
- Collaborate across teams to integrate security best practices into products and processes
- Conduct thesis-driven threat hunts across forensic data lakes
- Continuously research the threat landscape and commit to professional development with guaranteed work time and training budget
- Participate in rotational on-call responsibilities (reasonable workload shared across the team)

## What we're looking for
- Superb interpersonal and communication skills
- A practiced technical investigative mindset
- Experience securing cloud-native environments
- Experience with cloud and endpoint security operations
- Bias for macOS or Linux technology
- Passion for all things AI
- Threat intelligence savvy
- Ability to work independently across multiple simultaneous work streams
- Cloud forensics and incident response knowledge, skills, and experience
- Ability to craft automation with languages such as Go, Python, or Shell
- Offensive security and/or open-source software development a plus
- 5+ years of experience in software development, information security, or IT engineering or combination of the three
- Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Security, or Information Systems preferred but not required

## Benefits
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and monthly stipend for coworking, phone and internet
- Stock options upon hire and promotion; 10 years to exercise options; participation in secondary offerings
- 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance for you and dependents
- ∞ Flexible Time Off
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents, 12 weeks for non-birthing parents

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