Staff Security Analyst, Governance and Trust

The posting, as Chainguard wrote it

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

The role in a nutshell

Chainguard is building the secure foundation for software development and deployment. Our Governance & Trust team makes sure the security practices behind that mission are effective, measurable, and worthy of our customers' trust.

We're hiring a senior practitioner to lead the compliance and trust side of that team. You'll run the execution of our external examinations (SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, and a growing set of sector and regional certifications), own how we respond to customer security diligence, and run third-party risk operations. You'll lead the compliance and trust side of the team, which includes a public-sector compliance analyst and two customer-facing security analysts, with formal management of that group expected as the team grows.

This is not a checklist compliance role. Our operating model treats policies and controls as code, draws evidence from systems of record rather than screenshots, and uses AI agents for first-pass questionnaire responses and vendor triage. You'll be the person who decides what those systems need to produce, judges whether what they produce is right, and stands behind it with an auditor or a customer.

What you’ll do

• Run the execution of Chainguard's external examinations end to end: the evidence calendar, population and completeness-and-accuracy requests, sample fulfilment, auditor status calls, and readiness assessment ahead of each cycle. Work with the Head of Governance & Trust on scope, control applicability, and auditor negotiation.
• Build and keep the working relationships with People, IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, Legal, and Sales that evidence, populations, and remediation depend on. Compliance and trust at Chainguard runs across most of the company, and the function should not be chasing other teams for what it needs.
• Own customer security diligence: security questionnaires, customer audits, Trust Center content, and the multi-round assessments that regulated customers run. Set turnaround expectations with Sales that the team can meet, and decide what we will and won't provide.
• Own the third-party risk management program: vendor intake and tiering, assessments, dispositions, and the register of critical suppliers and their agreements.
• Act as product owner for the customer-facing side of our agent platform: define what the questio

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ssume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

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.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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