Chainguard

Manager

• Renewal Management: Own the end-to-end renewal process for a portfolio of commercial customers, driving on-time renewals through proactive planning, customer engagement, and negotiation.
• Commercial Execution: Generate renewal quotes, lead pricing and contract negotiations, and coordinate with Finance, Legal, and Deal Desk to ensure accurate and timely contract execution.
• Forecasting & CRM Hygiene: Maintain accurate renewal data in CRM, including forecasts, risks, and renewal status, to provide clear visibility and predictable outcomes.
• Risk & Retention Strategy: Identify renewal risks early and collaborate cross-functionally to mitigate churn and improve gross retention.
• Process & Playbooks: Develop and refine renewal playbooks and operating processes to increase efficiency and improve on-time renewal rates.

Renewal Manager, Commercial

Product Marketing

• Manage ongoing launches of new capabilities, features, and integrations for Chainguard Containers and related tooling, ensuring successful cross-functional rollout across GTM teams and revenue growth.
• Drive growth initiatives with content and cross-functional plans that leverage Chainguard’s innovative launches and new use cases for solving supply chain security challenges.
• Develop and refine product positioning, messaging, presentations, and core content that articulate Chainguard’s unique value.
• Create enablement content and serve as a subject matter expert for sales and sales engineering teams, ensuring the field has the necessary tools and knowledge to succeed.
• Contribute to pricing and competitive analysis for Chainguard Containers.
• Collaborate with demand generation and corporate marketing teams by helping to develop campaigns, creating necessary content, and presenting at events.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering on product strategy.

Staff Product Marketing Manager – Containers

Recruitment

• Act as a primary owner for critical recruiting tools, workflows, and vendor relationships.
• Partner with HR Technology to configure systems, manage integrations, and implement automations that reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
• Map, document, and optimize end-to-end recruiting processes.
• Ensure data integrity through audits, quality controls, and governance standards.
• Move beyond basic reporting to deliver actionable insights that inform recruiting strategy and operational decisions.
• Partner with Legal and People Ops to ensure recruiting practices align with global employment laws and internal policies.

Recruiting Operations Manager

People Operations

• Employee Lifecycle Operations: Run onboarding, transitions, and offboarding logistics coordinating steps across teams, managing documentation, and keeping workflows organized and on track.
• Employee Experience & Support: Serve as the first point of contact for employee questions, providing responsive, high-quality support and improving “moments that matter” across the employee journey.
• Streamline & Uplevel Processes: Continuously improve and optimize People Ops processes and systems to increase efficiency and scalability.
• People Systems, Data & Insights: Own day-to-day People systems administration - serving as the point person for People systems, ensuring clean and accurate data, and supporting reporting and metrics to inform decision-making as we scale.
• Compliance Champion: Help keep us compliant by staying on top of employment laws, managing documentation, maintaining People policies, and implementing processes that align with regulations.
• Knowledge & Enablement: Own and continuously improve the People Ops knowledge base in Chainweb (our internal wiki) so People processes, policies, and FAQs are clear, current, and easy to find.
• Leave Administration Lead: Manage leave administration by tracking employee leave balances, processing leave requests, and ensuring alignment with applicable leave policies and local regulations.
• Benefits Support: Help employees navigate enrollment and resources, partner closely with the Benefits team to keep benefits information accurate and up to date, and escalate complex issues as needed.
• Cross-Functional Partner: Act as a liaison between People, Finance, IT, and other teams to drive operational excellence.

People Operations Specialist

Full-stack Engineer

• Design, build, and evolve internal platform services by understanding how Chainguard engineers use shared infrastructure, ensuring our 'Factory' capabilities work seamlessly across the organization.
• Implement agent observability by capturing and analyzing structured traces, making AI-driven workflows (like automated CVE remediation) debuggable and reliable in production.
• Optimize our monorepo CI/CD pipeline to maintain high-performance DORA metrics, focusing on improving build stability and reducing flake rates.
• Master context engineering by validating patterns for agent skills and memory, enabling agents to make consistent decisions across complex engineering workflows.
• Contribute to a productivity-driven roadmap with clear outcomes, helping the team prioritize tradeoffs to remove 'shadow production' risks and deliver standardized 'paved road' blueprints.

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Engineering Manager

• Provide vision, mentorship, and strategic leadership for a diverse engineering team building and maintaining secure open source libraries at scale.
• Guide the technical direction and product strategy spanning language ecosystems, dependency management, security hardening, tooling, automation and services.
• Set and oversee policies, quality standards and continuous improvement, balancing world-class security practices, performance, stability, and customer value.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, removing blockers and enabling efficient team operations.
• Steer enhancements to the build and testing infrastructure for reproducible, auditable, and trusted library releases including vulnerability detection, patching, SBOM and provenance generation across library ecosystems.
• Drive strong cross-team collaboration within the Libraries product.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure seamless interoperability and consistent security posture.
• Stay ahead of ecosystem developments ensuring Guarded Libraries are modern, high-quality, and setting the benchmark for safe, sustainable open source.
• Represent Guarded Libraries externally: interfacing with partners, community maintainers, and driving adoption and awareness.

Manager, Software Engineering – Libraries

Staff Software Engineer – Platform

Director

• Own the vision, strategy, and execution of Chainguard’s global GTM systems and business applications, ensuring they scale with rapid growth and support Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Customer Success, and Revenue Operations.
• Serve as the executive owner of the GTM tech stack, with Salesforce at the core, driving continuous optimization across lead-to-cash, quote-to-revenue, and customer lifecycle workflows.
• Define and maintain a multi-year GTM systems roadmap, balancing near-term business priorities with long-term scalability, data integrity, and architectural excellence.
• Lead the evaluation, implementation, and adoption of modern and AI-enabled GTM technologies, improving seller productivity, pipeline visibility, forecasting accuracy, and customer engagement.
• Partner deeply with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Legal, Security, and Product leaders to translate business strategy into scalable system design and process automation.
• Support data governance, reporting, and analytics across GTM systems, ensuring trusted metrics, high-quality data, and actionable insights for executive decision-making.
• Oversee complex system integrations across CRM, marketing automation, sales engagement, customer success, billing, and data platforms, making thoughtful build/buy/partner decisions.
• Establish best practices for release management, system reliability, change management, and compliance, aligned with Chainguard’s security and operational standards.
• Act as a hands-on leader, with responsibility to build, mentor, and scale a high-performing GTM Systems / Business Applications team over time.
• Operate as a strategic thought partner and escalation point, bringing a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and accountability to mission-critical initiatives.

Senior Director, Business Applications

Product Manager

• Set, own, and accelerate the Libraries product strategy and roadmap: Translate user needs across Security, Platform, and Developer personas into a clear product vision and prioritized roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Drive product definition from concept through delivery, ensuring Libraries remain scalable, reliable, and differentiated.
• Improve developer experience by leading initiatives to simplify and improve critical user journeys, reducing friction and making secure library consumption intuitive and efficient.
• Partner deeply with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, UX Design & Research, and GTM teams to deliver cohesive solutions that balance usability, compliance, and technical rigor.
• Be the voice of the customer and market by engaging directly with customers, analyze usage data and telemetry, and track industry trends to inform decisions and anticipate evolving needs.
• Drive execution and delivery. Define requirements, manage backlogs, and prioritize work to ensure timely delivery of meaningful improvements across the Libraries product.

Senior Product Manager, Libraries

• Support diverse engineering teams, providing regular coaching, feedback, and clear growth paths for Senior and Staff engineers.
• Oversee day-to-day operations, including removing blockers, managing cross-team dependencies, and handling escalations or alerts.
• Partner with stakeholders to make platform usage data actionable, informing roadmap priorities and demonstrating impact on customer outcomes.
• Help build strong technical relationships with CSPs, ISVs, and CNAPPs, acting as a technical advisor in joint solution designs and certifications.

Manager, Integrations – Customer Platform

• Own the architecture and technical direction for the Libraries Platform: the services, pipelines, and package index that power secure, reproducible build, test, and distribution workflows for libraries across multiple ecosystems (Java, JavaScript, Python/AI/ML).
• Design and maintain automation for artifact creation, updates, and verification, including vulnerability scanning, remediation workflows, SBOM and provenance generation, and policy enforcement across our library catalog.
• Build and operate shared platform services such as package indexes, registry mirrors, metadata services, and orchestration tooling that serve both external customers and internal ecosystem teams.
• Develop internal developer tools and CLIs (often in Go) that improve how we build, test, and ship libraries at scale, including integration with build systems and CI/CD for multiple ecosystems.
• Drive reliability, scalability, and observability for the Libraries platform: define SLOs, build monitoring and alerting, and lead incident response and post‑incident improvements.
• Solve complex dependency and build issues in production environments, from toolchain and compiler problems to CI/CD flakiness and registry/package index edge cases.
• Partner closely with ecosystem teams (Java, JavaScript, Python/AI/ML), Platform, Delivery, Sustaining, and Security to ensure the platform meets reliability, security, and product requirements.
• Mentor and unblock other engineers through design reviews, documentation, and hands‑on debugging, helping to “code culture” into how we build and run our libraries platform.

Staff Software Engineer – Libraries, Platform

Program Manager

• Lead "How We Lead": Own our flagship leadership development program, evolving it from a static framework into a living practice embedded in the flow of work.
• Build "How We Manage": Design and launch our "Manager 101" program, focusing on managing remotely, effective 1:1s, team rituals, and operational excellence—leveraging AI to provide just-in-time coaching and prompts.
• Drive Upward Feedback: Partner with People Partners to manage bi-annual upward feedback cycles, ensuring insights lead to actionable development for managers.
• Nurture Communities of Practice: Facilitate monthly manager All Hands and build spaces where leaders can solve problems, share "oops" moments, and learn together.
• Scale Manager Onboarding: Design the first 90 days for new managers to ensure they hit the ground running with the "Chainguard Way" of leadership.
• Champion External Branding: Partner with Marketing to showcase our culture on LinkedIn, RepVue, and other platforms—telling the story of what it’s like to build and lead here.
• Support Culture Milestones: Co-lead leadership offsites and major summits to create high-impact, "wonderfully weird" employee experiences.

Senior Culture Program Manager

Backend Engineer

• Own architecture and direction for Java ecosystem infrastructure, enabling secure, reproducible build, test, and distribution workflows for Java libraries and SDKs.
• Design and maintain automation for building, updating, validating, and publishing Java artifacts, including vulnerability scanning, remediation, SBOMs, and provenance.
• Build internal developer tools (Gradle/Maven plugins, CLIs, code generators) that improve how we build and maintain Java packages at scale.
• Integrate deeply with Gradle and Maven and artifact repositories, solving complex dependency and module-resolution issues in large codebases and mono-repos.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to shape the Java libraries roadmap and deliver on key business outcomes for Chainguard Libraries.
• Mentor and unblock other engineers through design reviews, documentation, and hands-on debugging of build and infrastructure issues.
• Partner with Platform, Delivery, Sustaining, and Security to ensure Java pipelines and services meet reliability and security expectations.

Staff Software Engineer, Java Libraries

• Own technical direction and architecture for JS (npm) ecosystem infrastructure, supporting high-quality and secure build, test, and distribution automation for libraries.
• Design, implement, and optimize systems for automated artifact creation, update, validation, vulnerability scanning, remediation, and SBOM and provenance generation for npm packages.
• Build and maintain internal developer tools: bundler plugins, CLI utilities, code generators, and meta-tooling that improve the workflows for library and package maintenance.
• Develop and debug integrations for modern JS build systems and package managers.
• Solve complex dependency resolution issues, manage monorepo orchestration, and drive improvements in infrastructure automation.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to set technical direction, drive roadmap execution, and establish process excellence for scalable package maintenance.
• Mentor, review, and enable other engineers by sharing systems knowledge, debugging strategies, and 'meta' tooling insights.
• Partner with internal teams (Delivery, Sustaining, Platform, Security) to ensure our JavaScript ecosystem services meet critical SLAs and SLOs.

Renewal Manager, Commercial

Staff Product Marketing Manager – Containers

Recruiting Operations Manager

People Operations Specialist

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Manager, Software Engineering – Libraries

Staff Software Engineer – Platform

Senior Director, Business Applications

Senior Product Manager, Libraries

Manager, Integrations – Customer Platform

Staff Software Engineer – Libraries, Platform

Staff Software Engineer – Libraries, Platform

Senior Culture Program Manager

Staff Software Engineer, Java Libraries

Staff Software Engineer, Libraries