Chainguard
Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform
Remote R&D Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
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Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform
Requirements and responsibilities
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Developer Experience
- Make engineers more productive every day. Continuously improve the systems, workflows, and tooling that support software development across Chainguard.
Golden Paths
- Create opinionated, self-service platform capabilities that allow engineering teams to focus on solving customer problems rather than managing infrastructure.
CI/CD Excellence
- Own and evolve our software delivery systems, ensuring builds, testing, releases, and deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and scalable.
Platform Reliability
- Drive operational excellence through SLOs, observability, automation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.
Team Leadership
- Lead a highly experienced team of senior and principal engineers. Remove obstacles, create clarity, and foster an environment where engineers can do exceptional work.
- Manage without micromanaging — set goals and create conditions for the team to execute. Ask once and trust the follow-through.
Infrastructure Automation
- Advance Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and platform automation initiatives that improve consistency and reduce operational burden.
Technical Strategy
- Help define and execute the roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform while balancing short-term needs with long-term investments.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with application teams, security teams, and engineering leadership to understand developer needs and prioritize platform investments.
Engineering Leadership
- 2–3+ years of engineering management experience for Manager level; 5–10+ years for Senior Manager level.
- Proven experience managing highly experienced and senior engineers — including principal-level talent.
- Comfort with the compensation dynamics of managing senior individual contributors.
- Strong coaching, communication, and organizational skills.
- Technical enough to read and occasionally contribute to code — this is not a pure people management role. Chainguard managers are expected to stay technically engaged.
Platform & Infrastructure Domain
- Background in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure — someone with that as a basis will have the right domain expertise to lead this team.
- Understanding of and appreciation for the open source and security world.
- Experience building and operating Internal Developer Platforms, golden path tooling, or similar engineering productivity systems.
SRE & Operations
- Experience with incident management, SLOs, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence.
Technical Experience
- Strong Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure experience.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation and GitOps workflows.
- Deep experience with GitHub and/or GitLab administration, workflows, and CI/CD systems.
Nice to Have:
- Background in Linux distributions or OS-level systems.
- Experience in security-focused organizations or with software supply chain security practices.
- SRE management experience.
- Prior experience at DigitalOcean, Rackspace, or similar infrastructure-focused technology companies.
About Us
- We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well-informed decisions.
About Us
- We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
About Us
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
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