Chainguard

Chainguard

Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform

United States - Remote

Sponsorship not specified$205k-$230kDetected 9 hours ago
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About the role

  • Do you believe great infrastructure should disappear into the background?
  • Do you enjoy helping engineers move faster, safer, and with less friction?
  • Do you thrive leading highly experienced engineers who care deeply about reliability, automation, and developer experience?

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
  • If you're excited about solving hard technical problems at scale and building teams that deliver exceptional results, we'd love to talk.
  • From CI/CD and developer environments to infrastructure automation and deployment workflows, this team enables every engineer in the company to deliver software quickly and safely.
  • Developer Experience Making engineers more productive every day by continuously improving the systems, workflows, tooling, and AI capabilities that support software development across Chainguard.
  • Agentic Engineering Platform Own and evolve Chainguard's Agentic Engineering Platform, enabling engineers to leverage AI across the software development lifecycle.
  • Ability to influence without authority and build consensus across diverse teams.

Requirements

  • Experience managing software, infrastructure, platform, or SRE teams.
  • Proven success leading highly experienced engineers.
  • Deep understanding of platform engineering principles and developer experience best practices.
  • Experience introducing AI-assisted software development into engineering organizations.
  • Familiarity with coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar tools.
  • Experience with incident management, SLOs, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure automation and GitOps workflows.
  • Experience operating production services at scale.
  • GitHub & GitLab Expertise
  • Deep experience with GitHub and/or GitLab administration and workflows.
  • Engineering Leadership
  • Strong coaching, communication, and organizational skills.
  • Champion AI adoption across Engineering by leading through example. Engineering leaders are expected to actively use AI in their own workflows and help their teams continuously improve how they leverage AI to deliver better software. We believe in the Token Rule for Engineering Leadership: managers should remain hands-on enough with AI tooling to effectively coach their teams while focusing on maximizing the organization's overall productivity rather than their own individual output.
  • Platform Engineering
  • Experience building and operating Internal Developer Platforms, Developer Portals, or similar engineering productivity systems.
  • AI-First Engineering
  • Understanding of context engineering, evaluation frameworks, and operating AI-assisted development workflows.
  • Passion for improving engineering productivity through AI.
  • SRE & Operations

Skills

  • Platform Reliability Driving operational excellence through SLOs, observability, automation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.
  • Removing obstacles, creating clarity, and fostering an environment where engineers can do exceptional work.

Compensation

  • $205k-$230k

Company info

  • We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Internal Developer Platform team.
  • Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
  • At Chainguard, we're building the secure foundation that modern software depends on.
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