Staff Software Engineer, Chainguard Harness
Core
Design and build the Chainguard Harness, a security product using frontier AI models to hunt for exploitable vulnerabilities in customer applications and deliver validated findings with recommended fixes.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Security & AI)
Builds
Chainguard Harness, a production-grade service for secure AI-driven vulnerability scanning
Domain
Cybersecurity, AI/ML, Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Go, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), virtualization and workload isolation, applied cryptography, system architecture, security engineering, AI tooling
Preferred skills
offensive security, vulnerability research, Kubernetes/Helm, LLM output evaluation
Technologies
Go, Terraform, KVM, QEMU, Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor, gVisor, GCP, AWS, HSM, KMS
Responsibilities
Own major parts of the system end-to-end, build security into the foundation, make Harness a reliable production-grade service, work directly with customers and field teams, raise the bar for the team through design docs and mentoring
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with architectural ownership
