Staff Software Engineer (Malware Detection)
Chainguard · United States - Remote · Remote-friendly
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- Company
- Chainguard
- Location
- United States - Remote
- Salary
- $170,000 — $231,000
- Posted
- September 15, 2026
About this job
Chainguard is building the most trusted source for open source software. Every artifact Chainguard distributes is evaluated by our scanner before it reaches a customer. It determines whether a package, container, or AI agent skill is safe to use and sits between our customers and compromised software. What began as a high-leverage internal system has become a core platform powering Chainguard Libraries, Containers, Agent Skills, and future products. We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the engineering of that platform. You'll own its architecture, scale, and reliability. You'll partner closely with Product Security to turn threat research into detections that run accurately and fast on every artifact we distribute, and with Product to define how customers experience a verdict.…
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