Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform

What You'll Do

Developer Experience

• Make engineers more productive every day. Continuously improve the systems, workflows, and tooling that support software development across Chainguard.

Golden Paths

• Create opinionated, self-service platform capabilities that allow engineering teams to focus on solving customer problems rather than managing infrastructure.

CI/CD Excellence

• Own and evolve our software delivery systems, ensuring builds, testing, releases, and deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and scalable.

Platform Reliability

• Drive operational excellence through SLOs, observability, automation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.

Team Leadership

• 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.

Infrastructure Automation

• Advance Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and platform automation initiatives that improve consistency and reduce operational burden.

Technical Strategy

• Help define and execute the roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform while balancing short-term needs with long-term investments.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

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

What We're Looking For

Engineering Leadership

• 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.

Platform & Infrastructure Domain

• Background in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure.
• 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.

SRE & Operations

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

Technical Experience

• 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.

Nice to Have

• 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.