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Salary: USD 205,000 - 231,000 / annual
Chainguard is hiring a Senior Product Manager to own the Scanner platform—a core system that evaluates the safety of open source software, containers, and AI agent skills before they reach customers. This role is the first dedicated PM for this high-leverage internal platform that now powers multiple Chainguard products.
You will own detection quality, platform strategy, and customer experience around scanning. Key responsibilities include:
**Detection Quality**: Drive coverage, precision, and delivery of core product metrics. Build feedback loops between Engineering and Product Security to continuously improve detection capabilities. Create 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.
You'll partner closely with Engineering, Product Security, Design, and GTM teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of PM experience building developer tools, infrastructure, security, or platform products. You should have deep experience owning technical platforms that support multiple products or internal customers, strong understanding of software supply chain security and malware detection, and demonstrated success making prioritization decisions in complex environments. Strong technical credibility is essential—comfort discussing architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and security concepts with engineers. Nice-to-haves include experience with SCA tools, package ecosystems (npm, PyPI, Maven, Go modules), container registries, and AI-assisted security analysis.
About Chainguard
AI / Data / Infrastructure; Legal / Compliance / Risk — software supply-chain security and trusted container images.
