Staff Vulnerability Management Engineer
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Staff engineer managing AI-discovered vulnerabilities for Chainguard, which builds hardened open-source software. Coordinating disclosures, CVEs, embargoes, and industry-wide supply-chain security efforts.
Responsibilities:
- Own measurement, disclosure, and reporting of a pipeline of thousands of novel vulnerabilities identified weekly by frontier models and other sources
- Calibrate the vulnerability response process in response to emerging trends
- Manage reporting of newly discovered vulnerabilities to upstream projects and maintainers
- Run the CNA program to assign new CVEs where necessary
- Coordinate internal and external embargoes with customers, internal engineering teams, and external maintainers
- Work with the Linux Foundation, CISA, and other bodies to coordinate actions and responses
- Guide industry direction so Chainguard customer needs are met by emerging standards and norms
- Represent Chainguard externally and visibly as the face of its industry-leading efforts
- Work with AI model vendors to guide the future evolution of the software supply chain
Requirements:
- 7+ years in software security, open source maintenance, or vulnerability disclosure management
- Strong understanding of responsible disclosure
- Practical expertise automating pipelines and processes at large scale and removing the human-in-the-loop
- Deep experience with open source communities
- Experience coordinating with public sector or industry standards bodies and working groups
- Established vulnerability disclosure management and embargo thought leadership (nice to have)
- Familiarity with Chainguard Images or other minimal/hardened container base image ecosystems (nice to have)
- Experience operating a CNA (nice to have)
- Software engineering background in Python, Java, Javascript, Go, or similar languages (nice to have)
- Background in security research, pen testing, or bug bounties (nice to have)
Benefits:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture
- Team meetup opportunities
- Bi-annual destination summits
- Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs
- Stock options upon hire and promotion
- Participation in secondary offerings
- 10 years to exercise stock options
- 100% covered health, vision and dental insurance premiums for employee and dependents
- Unlimited flexible time off
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
- 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- Option to use parental leave all at once or throughout the child's first year













