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Senior Security Engineer

130k – 150kUnited StatesRemote5+ YOE
Summary

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.

About the role

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
Skills
GoPythonShellSOARThreat IntelligenceCloud ForensicsIncident ResponseCloud SecurityEndpoint SecuritymacOSLinux
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