Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform

Chainguard

Engineering Manager leading the Internal Developer Platform team at Chainguard. Empowering engineers through better systems, tooling, and automation while managing senior talent remotely.

Posted 7/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $205,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in engineering management, with a strong focus on platform engineering, operational excellence, and team leadership. Capable of driving initiatives in Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and enhancing developer productivity through effective tooling and systems.

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Engineering Management ExperiencePlatform Engineering ExpertiseKubernetes and Cloud InfrastructureIncident Management and SLOsGitHub and GitLab Administration

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Hard Skills

Infrastructure as CodeGitOpsCI/CD SystemsObservabilityCapacity PlanningOperational ExcellenceSoftware Delivery SystemsInternal Developer PlatformsAutomationCoding Contribution

Soft Skills

CoachingCommunicationOrganizational SkillsTeam LeadershipProblem Solving

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesGitHubGitLabCloud InfrastructureGolden Path Tooling

Industry Keywords

DevOpsSREOpen SourceSecurityEngineering Productivity

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudKubernetesOpen Source

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.