Senior Security Engineer (Infrastructure)
Engineer and secure multi-cloud environments in a remote-first, AI-focused startup.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 7 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 7 hours ago
What you'll build
- Engineer and maintain cloud environments
- Partner with internal engineering teams
- Design and enforce secure identity and access strategies
- Lead cloud-centric disaster recovery exercises
- Assist during incident response investigations
Must have
- Strong, hands-on GCP or AWS engineering experience
- Solid DevOps background
- Experience with Terraform/IaC and Kubernetes
Nice to have
- Experience with Azure
- Prior experience at a fast-moving or late-stage startup
AI in the day-to-day
Securing the software supply chain as open source software increasingly feeds AI agents.
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Senior Security Engineer at Chainguard is responsible for engineering and securing the company's multi-cloud environment, ensuring it is resilient and optimized for performance. This role requires strong hands-on experience with GCP or AWS, along with a solid background in DevOps practices such as Terraform and Kubernetes. Ideal candidates will have a track record in designing secure systems and thrive in a fast-paced, late-stage startup environment where priorities can shift rapidly. The position involves close collaboration with product engineering teams to integrate security into everyday architecture and tooling.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze September 25, 2026. Last confirmed on Chainguard's careers page September 25, 2026.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Security roles (median ~$170,000).
- Starts above 7% of 61 comparable senior security roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $179,800 across 42 companies). See AWS salary trends
- AWS appears in 26% of 308 comparable senior security roles in United States; CI/CD appears in 4.9% of 308 comparable senior security roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Security Engineer (Infrastructure) role remote?
- Yes — Chainguard lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Chainguard lists $137,000–$160,000 for this role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Azure, CI/CD, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Chainguard targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Security Engineer (Infrastructure) role at Chainguard.
From the original posting
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.
The role in a nutshell:
We're looking for a Senior Security Engineer to engineer and secure our multi-cloud environment, the same cloud infrastructure that powers our product. This is a cloud-native, AI-obsessed company, and our cloud is the platform our product runs on. How we design, harden, and evolve it directly shapes what we can build and how fast we can build it safely. As open source software increasingly feeds AI agents as well as human engineers, securing that supply chain end-to-end is core to our mission. You'll formally report to the Sr Director of Cyber Resiliency and spend time embedded in project pods building alongside our product engineering partners. We're a late-stage startup, which means priorities, tooling, and scope can shift quickly.
What you'll do:
- Engineer and maintain cloud environments built to be secure, resilient, and optimized for performance
- Partner hands-on with internal engineering teams to embed security into the architecture and tooling developers use every day
- Work closely with our IAM counterparts to design and enforce secure identity and access strategies across all cloud environments
- Harden cloud platforms against emerging threats while keeping them resilient and highly available
- Lead cloud-centric disaster recovery exercises
- Bring a DevOps mindset by 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 to product engineering translating requirements into secure practical infrastructure that other teams will rapidly adopt
- 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:
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong, hands-on GCP or AWS engineering experience required
- Experience with Azure also a plus
- Solid DevOps background: comfortable using Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes (GKE), and CI/CD pipelines
- A track record of designing systems that are secure, resilient, and built to accelerate engineering velocity
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change: prior experience at a fast-moving or late-stage startup is a strong plus
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