Director, Product Security

The role, in a nutshell:

If you’ve ever thought, “I want to build the kind of security program even engineers respect,”  this is your moment.

We’re looking for a Director, Product Security who’s a deeply technical leader who can coach, code, review, architect, and jump into the weeds when needed.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the team. You’ll manage, mentor, and develop a team of product security engineers, guiding them on everything from secure architecture to code reviews to threat modeling.
  
  
• Be a technical backbone. You’re jumping into the work, offering technical guidance, reviewing complex issues, and collaborating closely with engineers and product teams.
  
  
• Own major initiatives. You’ll drive everything from secure SDLC improvements to DevSecOps integrations, ensuring our products are locked down before they ever hit production.
  
  
• Collaborate. You’ll work across Product, Engineering, and leadership teams building strong, trusted partnerships.
  
  
• Be the cool-headed expert. When security incidents escalate, you’re the calm, technical leader who helps diagnose, prioritize, and resolve.
  
  
• Elevate the bar. You’ll help design playbooks, build tools, and spread security knowledge across the company, so everyone knows how to build safer, smarter software.
  
  

What we're looking for:

• Strong technical foundation — you’ve worked in software or security engineering roles (10+ years), and you’re still hands-on, able to dig into code, architecture, and tooling.
  
  
• Experience leading secure coding and DevSecOps programs (SCA, SAST, CNAPP, threat modeling, the works).
  
  
• Deep understanding of Agile and CI/CD environments, and how to integrate security into fast-moving product teams without slowing them down..
  
  
• Programming experience across languages like Python, Node.js, C#, .NET, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, GraphQL, RESTful APIs (no need to be a wizard in all, but you can hold your own).
  
  
• Expertise in secure code reviews, business logic assessments, cloud security, and frameworks like OWASP, NIST, FedRAMP, ISO and you can explain why they matter in real-life situations.
  
  
• A growth mindset: you’re proactive, always learning, and stay ahead of emerging threats and technologies.

Why You’ll Love it Here:

We’re not a place that patches problems. We rethink the system.

At Chainguard, you’ll:

• Challenge the status quo. We love people who stir the pot, rethink assumptions, and invent better ways forward.
  
  
• Win together. We believe in collective success. No lone heroes here!
  
  
• Work with trust and humor. We take the mission seriously, but we laugh often because good work happens when people enjoy showing up.

Base Salary Range$230,000—$270,000 USD

About Us

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default. 

Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

 

We live and breathe our company values:

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.

 

A few of the benefits we offer:

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a $400 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: