# Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform

**Company:** [Chainguard](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chainguard)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $205k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, GitHub, GitLab, Cloud Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> Lead a team of senior and principal engineers building Chainguard's Internal Developer Platform. Own golden paths, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and developer productivity tooling while setting technical strategy and fostering high-performing teams.

## Job Description

## 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.

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