Principal Product Security Researcher
ChainguardUnited States
Posted April 7, 2026
201000 - 226000 USD
Full Time
About the Company
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on.
Job Description
Chainguard is a company that delivers hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software. They are looking for a Principal Product Security Researcher to lead their product security research function and help the company stay several moves ahead of attackers across their entire product portfolio.
Requirements
- Research emerging threats & trends in software supply chain and product security
- Design creative mitigations across people, process, and technology
- Lead large-scale, multi-quarter initiatives to reduce risk or improve security maturity
- Partner with executive and senior engineering leadership to drive org-level security strategy
- Mentor and uplevel others across Product Security and Engineering
Benefits
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture
- 100% Covered Health Insurance
- ∞ Flexible Time Off
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
- Stock options upon hire and promotion