Senior Security Engineer AI Platform

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.

Senior Security Engineer, AI Platform

IT Engineering · Cyber Resiliency · Remote

The role in a nutshell

AI moves fast. Embarrassingly fast. And right now, most corporate IT teams are reacting to it,  scrambling to figure out what employees are pasting into ChatGPT while the next model drop quietly changes the rules again.

You're going to change that at Chainguard.

This is a brand-new role sitting within the IT Engineering group inside Cyber Resiliency. You'll own our managed AI platform posture end-to-end: anticipating what's coming, governing how we use it, tracking what it costs us, building the tooling that keeps it safe, and making sure everyone from engineering to the exec team is using AI in ways that are fast, secure, and defensible.

This is an individual contributor role. You won't be managing people but you'll be managing chaos. There's no playbook yet. You're writing it.

What you'll do

Stay ahead of the roadmap (literally, it's the job)

Continuously monitor Claude and ChatGPT product roadmaps, release notes, and vendor communications to anticipate platform changes before they land

Translate upcoming features into proactive configuration, policy, and enablement decisions not reactive scrambles

Maintain active relationships with Anthropic and OpenAI account teams; flag ToS updates, data processing agreement changes, and acceptable use policy shifts before they become surprises

Own AI platform administration and configuration governance

Provide expert-level administration of AI console environments across both platforms

Manage Claude and ChatGPT organizational settings files using Git, version-controlled, reviewed, and deployed like the infrastructure they are

Own API key lifecycle management and secrets hygiene for all AI integrations

Manage SSO/SCIM provisioning for AI platforms; ensure access is tight, auditable, and clean

Build financial visibility and usage intelligence

Develop token tracking and financial dashboards so leadership actually knows what AI costs us by team, by use case, by month

Build anomaly detection on AI spend; if something spikes, you catch it before accounting does

Produce regular usage trend reports and ROI framing for leadership that goes beyond "we use AI a lot"

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