Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform
About the role
The role, in a nutshell:
The Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform is the builder of golden paths at Chainguard. This is a people-first, technically credible leadership role for someone who believes great infrastructure should disappear into the background — empowering engineers to move faster, safer, and with less friction.
This team owns the systems, tooling, automation, and workflows that power engineering productivity across Chainguard — from CI/CD and developer environments to infrastructure automation and deployment workflows. Critically, this team is one by one chipping away at a core dependency on third-party infrastructure that has proven unreliable, reimplementing it in a way that Chainguard owns and controls. This is a high-visibility, strategically important team.
Reporting to the Senior Director of Platform & Integrations, you will lead a mature, highly experienced team — including multiple principal engineers. This is not a team that needs hand-holding. It needs a leader who knows how to manage senior talent: someone who can set context, remove obstacles, create clarity, and foster an environment where exceptional engineers can do exceptional work. Managing a team with principal engineers means your comp will not necessarily be the highest on the team — a mature manager has seen this before and understands it.
We are open to a Manager or Senior Manager depending on experience. The ideal Senior Manager candidate brings 5–10+ years of engineering management experience with a clear upward trajectory. For the manager level, we are looking for 2–3+ years of engineering management experience at minimum. We will not hire an external candidate into this role as their first management position.
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.