Senior Security Engineer (Infrastructure)
Chainguard
New-York, United States Posted October 2, 2026
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Salary Range
$137,000 - $160,000
Job Description
Join our late-stage startup as a Senior Security Engineer, where you'll engineer and secure our multi-cloud environment. You'll work closely with internal engineering teams, design secure identity and access strategies, and lead cloud-centric disaster recovery exercises. This is a remote position with unlimited PTO, equity/stock options, and comprehensive health coverage.
- Engineer and maintain secure, resilient, and optimized cloud environments.
- Partner with internal engineering teams to embed security into architecture and tooling.
- Lead cloud-centric disaster recovery exercises and bring a DevOps mindset by building automation.
- Strong, hands-on GCP or AWS engineering experience required
- A track record of designing systems that are secure, resilient, and built to accelerate engineering velocity
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
- Solid DevOps background: comfortable using Terraform/IaC, Kubernetes (GKE), and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Azure also a plus
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change: prior experience at a fast-moving or late-stage startup is a strong plus
- If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
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