About the role
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 Product Manager, Malware Detection
The role, in a nutshell: 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 the first Product Manager dedicated to this platform. You'll own detection quality, platform strategy, and the customer experience around scanning. You'll partner closely with Engineering and Product Security to define how organizations evaluate software trust in an AI-driven world.
What you'll own: Detection Quality Own coverage, precision, and delivery of core product metrics. Drive the feedback loop between Engineering and Product Security to continuously improve detection quality. Build workflows for reviewing, escalating, and correcting detections quickly. Scanner Platform Define the roadmap for Chainguard's shared scanning platform. Scale the scanner beyond Libraries to Containers, Agent Skills, and future artifact types. Balance investments in detection quality, performance, and extensibility. Threat Detection Expand malware and greyware detection capabilities. Partner with Product Security to identify emerging threats and publish actionable intelligence. Customer Experience Define how customers investigate, enforce, and appeal scanner findings. Build intuitive workflows for policy management and enterprise-scale operations.