Manager, Product Security

The role, in a nutshell:

As a manager for the Product Security team, you will lead and grow Chainguard’s Product Security practice, ensuring that all Chainguard products are designed, built and operated with security at their core. You will manage a team of product security engineers, drive high-impact initiatives and work cross-functionally to integrate security measures into every phase of Chainguard’s software development life cycle through partnership with Engineering and Product. 

What you’ll do:

• Lead, manage, coach, and develop a team of Security professionals responsible for Product Security in all Chainguard products.
• Lead Product Security initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
• Develop a broad and deep technical understanding of the services and architectures pertaining to Chainguard products. Contribute to the short and long-term security strategy to ensure that products are designed and built securely by design while improving the secure software development life-cycle (SSDLC).
• Lead new, reoccurring, or ah-hoc security initiatives with end-to-end ownership. Participate in security escalations.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure security is integrated into all aspects of the Chainguard products.
• Design and deliver internal collateral, author internal processes,, and contribute to thought‑leadership content to deepen security fluency across Chainguard and among our customers.
• Serve as an escalation point for critical security incidents and ensure timely remediation.

What we're looking for:

• Secure Coding and DevSecOps Initiatives: Experience in implementing and leading DevSecOps initiatives, frameworks, and tools used for SCA, SAST, CNAPP, threat enrichment, etc.
• Agile Methodologies: Experience with Agile development/Scrum methodologies and incorporating security requirements into the SDLC (CI/CD) with product owners.
• Programming and Deployment: Experience in managing programs supporting secure code and software deployments in various languages (Python, Node.js, C#, .NET, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, GraphQL, SDK, and RESTful API design/development).
• Technical Expertise and Industry Standards Knowledge: Extensive experience in secure code reviews, business logic assessments, and application security testing. Deep understanding of network, data, and cloud security principles; and Expert knowledge of security principles, standards, and best practices, such as OWASP, NIST, FedRAMP, ISO, etc.
• You have 10+ years of software or security engineering experience, including supporting multiple teams and complex org-wide initiatives.
• You can lead projects, mentor team members, and provide technical leadership.

You stay current on emerging security threats and technologies, proactively identifying areas for improvement and drive initiatives to enhance the security posture of our products.