Engineering Manager – Internal Developer Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Enhance the productivity of engineers on a daily basis. Consistently refine the systems, workflows, and tools that facilitate software development across Chainguard.

• Develop opinionated, self-service platform capabilities that empower engineering teams to concentrate on addressing customer challenges instead of managing infrastructure.

• Take ownership of and refine our software delivery systems, ensuring that builds, testing, releases, and deployments are swift, reliable, secure, and scalable.

• Promote operational excellence through service level objectives (SLOs), observability, automation, capacity planning, and ongoing enhancement.

• Lead a highly skilled team of senior and principal engineers. Eliminate barriers, provide clarity, and cultivate an environment where engineers can deliver outstanding work.

• Manage without micromanaging—establish goals and create conditions that allow the team to execute efficiently. Trust the follow-through after asking once.

• Advance initiatives in Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and platform automation that enhance consistency and alleviate operational burdens.

• Assist in defining and implementing the roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform while balancing immediate needs with long-term investments.

• Collaborate closely with application teams, security teams, and engineering leadership to comprehend developer needs and prioritize platform investments.

⛳️ Requirements

• 2–3+ years of engineering management experience for Manager level; 5–10+ years for Senior Manager level.

• Demonstrated experience managing highly skilled and senior engineers, including principal-level talent.

• Comfortable with the compensation dynamics involved in managing senior individual contributors.

• Excellent coaching, communication, and organizational skills.

• Technically proficient enough to read and occasionally contribute to code—this role is not solely focused on people management. Chainguard managers are expected to remain technically engaged.

• Background in platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or infrastructure; having this foundational expertise will enable effective leadership of this team.

• Understanding and appreciation of the open-source and security landscape.

• Experience in building and operating Internal Developer Platforms, golden path tooling, or similar engineering productivity systems.

• Familiarity with incident management, SLOs, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence.

• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.

• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and GitOps workflows.

• Extensive experience with GitHub and/or GitLab administration, workflows, and CI/CD systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with opportunities for team meetups, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet expenses.

• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Additionally, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that right: 10 years!).

• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We fully cover your health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing is deducted from your paycheck.

• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need—doing our best work requires us to recharge and reset.

• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We provide 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to take it all at once or spread it throughout your child's first year.