Security Engineer at Chainguard
$105,000–$123,000
Jul 26, 2026
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Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An earlier-career security engineering role at a cloud-native open source security company, supporting teams across Identity and Access Management, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML pipelines. The hire will work alongside senior engineers to implement access controls, harden cloud environments, and help secure agentic AI workflows, while also handling scripting, automation, and operational runbooks. Strong IT administration or software development fundamentals are required; deep security expertise is not.
Junior level · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 25,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 15,100–45,300
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $132,021 (middle half $99,961–$167,095).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The posting explicitly frames this as an 'earlier-career role' and states security experience is 'a plus, not a requirement,' supporting a Junior seniority classification despite the Security Engineer title.
The hard gate is IT administration and/or software development background; hands-on experience in at least ONE of IAM, AI/ML infrastructure, or cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure) is also required — these are listed together as a single 'at least one of' requirement. Cloud platform names (GCP, AWS, Azure) appear only as examples within that requirement and are marked preferred individually since the role does not gate on any specific platform.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
The alt SOC (15-1244) reflects that the role's day-to-day work leans heavily toward operating and sustaining platforms (cloud, IAM, AI) alongside security analysis duties — the classification is a genuine toss-up between security analysis and systems administration.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): IT administration.
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