Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard is a trusted source for open source, delivering secure builds of software for enterprises. The Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform will lead a team focused on enhancing engineering productivity through improved systems and workflows, while fostering a high-performing environment for senior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Make engineers more productive every day. Continuously improve the systems, workflows, and tooling that support software development across Chainguard
- Create opinionated, self-service platform capabilities that allow engineering teams to focus on solving customer problems rather than managing infrastructure
- Own and evolve our software delivery systems, ensuring builds, testing, releases, and deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and scalable
- Drive operational excellence through SLOs, observability, automation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement
- 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
- Advance Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and platform automation initiatives that improve consistency and reduce operational burden
- Help define and execute the roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform while balancing short-term needs with long-term investments
- Partner closely with application teams, security teams, and engineering leadership to understand developer needs and prioritize platform investments
Skills
- 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
- 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
- Experience with incident management, SLOs, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- 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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