Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened and secure builds of open source software. The Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform is responsible for leading a team that enhances engineering productivity by improving systems and workflows, ensuring reliable software delivery, and fostering a productive team environment.

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