Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform

🕒 July 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $205k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Chainguard

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

Security • SaaS • Cybersecurity

Chainguard is a company that specializes in building secure container images to enhance software security and compliance. Their products include low-to-zero CVE container images, which are updated daily to maintain security and compliance standards such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, PCI-DSS, SOC2, and CIS benchmarks. Chainguard focuses on reducing vulnerabilities, automating compliance, and supporting development workflows without compromising on innovation and productivity. The company serves a wide range of industries, including highly regulated sectors, by providing hardened image solutions to mitigate software supply chain risks and enhance application security.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ 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.