Manager, Software Engineering – Libraries Automation

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

📋 Description

• Deliver vision, mentorship, and strategic leadership for a diverse engineering team focused on developing and maintaining secure open source libraries at scale.

• Direct the technical trajectory and product strategy across various language ecosystems, dependency management, security enhancements, tooling, automation, and services.

• Establish and manage policies, quality benchmarks, and continuous improvement while balancing security, performance, stability, and customer value.

• Take ownership of development-artifact-specific comparator gates, LLM-based judge rubrics, language-specific build systems, and AI automation initiatives.

• Guide improvements in build and testing infrastructure to ensure reproducible, auditable, and reliable library releases.

• Supervise vulnerability detection, patching, SBOM, and provenance generation across library ecosystems.

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to guarantee interoperability and a consistent security posture.

• Represent Chainguard Libraries to external partners and community maintainers, promoting adoption and awareness.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated success in managing and scaling technical teams.

• Experience in building or maintaining platforms at a large scale.

• Background in managing teams that deploy agentic AI into production.

• Proficiency in delivering agentic tools and designing evaluation frameworks and LLM-judge rubrics.

• Experience in curating agent knowledge, including skills, prompts, and fixtures.

• Proven ability to enhance automation behind measurable quality gates.

• Strong understanding of language ecosystems such as Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, and .NET.

• Familiarity with build systems, dependency management, release management, and vulnerability management.

• Experience leading teams focused on cloud-native technologies and infrastructure.

• Proficiency with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience with cloud services including GCP and AWS.

• Knowledge of infrastructure as code practices such as Terraform.

• A growth-oriented mindset towards helping engineers and organizations adapt and flourish.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture.

• Opportunities for team meetups.

• Bi-annual destination summits.

• Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet expenses.

• Stock options available upon hire and promotion.

• Participation in secondary offerings.

• 10 years to exercise stock options.

• 100% coverage of health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for the employee and their dependents.

• Unlimited flexible time off.

• 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents.

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.

• Option to utilize parental leave all at once or spread throughout the child's first year.