Chainguard
Senior Security Engineer (Cyber Resiliency)
Canada - Remote · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 40 days ago
PythonGoLinuxSparkAgentic AICybersecuritySOARSOC OperationsDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseCanvaResearchCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- Help shape how the open source world defends itself while working with a high‑trust, low‑ego team that actually makes security fun.
- As a Senior Security Engineer on our Cyber Resiliency team, your role will be to enable Chainguardians to do their best work through collaborative low-friction Information Security.
- A successful candidate will possess a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving abilities, relentless curiosity, and a team first mentality.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Contributed or lead incident response efforts, including tabletop exercises
- Collaborate across teams to integrate security best practices into products and processes
- We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Requirements
- Experience securing cloud-native environments
- Experience with cloud and endpoint security operations
- Ability to work independently across multiple simultaneous work streams
- Ability to craft automation with languages such as Go, Python, or Shell.
- 5+ years of experience in software development, information security, or IT engineering or combination of the three
Nice to have
- Offensive security and or open-source software development a plus
- Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Security, or Information Systems preferred but not required
Compensation
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
Company info
- We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions - We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
- We live and breathe our company values:
- A few of the benefits we offer:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need - to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave:
- Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- What we're looking for (you do not need all of these to apply):
- We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
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