ChainguardHiring

Principal Product Security Researcher

  • Remote, United States
  • Lead
  • Posted 6 days ago
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Principal-level research role owning the product security research agenda across a whole portfolio, open to candidates in the US, Canada or the UK.

About the role

The company ships hardened builds of open source software, and this role looks ahead at emerging attack patterns so products and roadmaps can prepare for them. Findings are meant to turn into multi-quarter plans, not one-off reports.

At a glance

Pay
Not stated in the posting
Remote scope
Remote, United States
Seniority
Lead
Skills
Product security, Application security
Posted
23 Oct 2026
Last checked
28 Oct 2026

What you will do

  • Research emerging threats in software supply chain and product security and assess their impact
  • Design practical mitigations across people, process and technology that teams will adopt
  • Work with senior engineering and executive leadership on security strategy and roadmap decisions
  • Mentor people across product security and engineering, and represent the company at conferences

What they look for

  • Deep experience in product or application security
  • Ability to turn ambiguous threat intelligence into concrete multi-quarter plans
  • Skill at balancing input from many stakeholders and fixing root causes

Nice to have

  • Comfort speaking publicly and publishing thought leadership

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What experience is needed?

It is a lead role. The posting asks for: deep experience in product or application security; ability to turn ambiguous threat intelligence into concrete multi-quarter plans; skill at balancing input from many stakeholders and fixing root causes. Skills it names include Product security, Application security.

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