Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, helping organizations build faster and stay compliant. The Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform will lead a team focused on enhancing engineering productivity through systems, tooling, and workflows, while ensuring operational excellence and driving technical strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Make engineers more productive every day. Continuously improve the systems, workflows, and tooling that support software development across Chainguard
• Create opinionated, self-service platform capabilities that allow engineering teams to focus on solving customer problems rather than managing infrastructure
• Own and evolve our software delivery systems, ensuring builds, testing, releases, and deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and scalable
• Drive operational excellence through SLOs, observability, automation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement
• 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
• Advance Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and platform automation initiatives that improve consistency and reduce operational burden
• Help define and execute the roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform while balancing short-term needs with long-term investments
• Partner closely with application teams, security teams, and engineering leadership to understand developer needs and prioritize platform investments

Requirements:

• 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
• Background in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure — someone with that as a basis will have the right domain expertise to lead this team
• 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
• Experience with incident management, SLOs, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence
• 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
• 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