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Staff Vulnerability Management Engineer

Chainguard · United States - Remote · Remote

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About Chainguard

Chainguard provides trusted open source artifacts for every layer of your modern software stack—containers, language libraries, and VM images. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.

About the role

You care deeply about the future of open source software, and have a desire to work across the industry to solve the new problems that frontier models are creating for the industry as a whole. At Chainguard, we are leading the charge into the next chapter of AI supply chain security - you will be at the forefront of that. This is an individual-contributor Staff role. That means technical leadership, cross-team influence, and owning hard problems.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years in software security, open source maintenance, or vulnerability disclosure management
  • A strong understanding of responsible disclosure
  • Practical expertise with automating pipelines and processes, to operate at large scale, and to remove the human-in-the-loop
  • Deep experience with open source communities
More about this role

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.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

You care deeply about the future of open source software, and have a desire to work across the industry to solve the new problems that frontier models are creating for the industry as a whole. At Chainguard, we are leading the charge into the next chapter of AI supply chain security - you will be at the forefront of that.

This is an individual-contributor Staff role. That means technical leadership, cross-team influence, and owning hard problems.

Own the measurement, disclosure and reporting of our pipeline of thousands of novel vulnerabilities weekly identified by frontier...

Read the full posting on Chainguard's site ↗

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