Chainguard provides hardened, production-ready open-source software builds that help organizations secure their software supply chains by default.
<div class="content-intro"><p>Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. 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. <br><br>Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. <br><br>Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.</p></div><h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform: Builder of Golden Paths</span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Protecting the software supply chain is one of the most important challenges in technology. At Chainguard, we're building the secure foundation that modern software depends on. Our products help organizations eliminate entire classes of software supply chain risk while enabling developers to move faster, not slower.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We're a remote-first company built by industry experts who believe security, reliability, and developer experience should work together. Our engineering culture emphasizes ownership, craftsmanship, continuous learning, and a relentless focus on customer outcomes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you're excited about solving hard technical problems at scale and building teams that deliver exceptional results, we'd love to talk.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The role, in a nutshell: </span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Chainguard is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Internal Developer Platform team — the group that owns CI/CD, developer tooling, infrastructure automation, and our emerging Agentic Engineering Platform, which lets engineers and AI agents build software together. You'll lead a mature team of senior platform and infrastructure engineers, set the technical roadmap for developer productivity and AI-native engineering, and make sure every engineer at Chainguard can ship software quickly, safely, and with less friction.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">About the role: </span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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?</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Internal Developer Platform team.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This team owns the systems, tooling, automation, and workflows that power engineering productivity across Chainguard. 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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As Chainguard continues its evolution into an AI-first engineering organization, this team is responsible for building the platforms, golden paths, and guardrails that allow engineers and AI agents to collaborate throughout the software development lifecycle.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Reporting to the Senior Director of Platform & Integrations, you will lead a mature, highly skilled team of platform and infrastructure engineers focused on delivering world-class developer experience.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This role is ideal for a technical leader who understands modern platform engineering, has strong SRE instincts, and enjoys helping senior engineers operate at their highest level.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You Will Be Responsible For: </span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Developer Experience</strong> Making engineers more productive every day by continuously improving the systems, workflows, tooling, and AI capabilities that support software development across Chainguard.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Golden Paths</strong> Creating opinionated, self-service platform capabilities and AI-native engineering workflows that allow engineers to focus on solving customer problems rather than managing infrastructure or repetitive engineering tasks.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>CI/CD Excellence</strong> Owning and evolving our software delivery systems, ensuring builds, testing, releases, and deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and scalable.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Platform Reliability</strong> Driving operational excellence through SLOs, observability, automation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Agentic Engineering Platform</strong> Own and evolve Chainguard's Agentic Engineering Platform, enabling engineers to leverage AI across the software development lifecycle. Build the shared infrastructure, tooling, context management, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails that make AI-assisted engineering secure, scalable, and effective.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Team Leadership</strong> Leading a highly experienced team of senior engineers. Removing obstacles, creating clarity, and fostering an environment where engineers can do exceptional work.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Infrastructure Automation</strong> Advancing Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and platform automation initiatives that improve consistency and reduce operational burden.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Technical Strategy</strong> Define and execute the roadmap for both the Internal Developer Platf