Manager, Engineering (Guarded Containers)

Manager, Engineering (Guarded Containers)

The Containers engineering team is responsible for our core product our minimal, hardened, industry-defining Chainguard Images, and we're looking for an engineering manager to lead the Tools team within the Containers organization.

You will lead and support the team responsible for the infrastructure and tooling that builds Chainguard Images. You'll manage multiple projects in parallel, ensure technical excellence and customer success, and collaborate with other engineering teams who depend on you. This role is pivotal in ensuring our product is delivered to customers, with high quality, and is able to scale as the company grows rapidly.

What You'll Do :

• Lead, manage and grow a diverse engineering team within the Containers organization, overseeing our core image build tooling and infrastructure
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, removing blockers and enabling efficient team operations.
• Set quality standards and drive continuous improvements to test infrastructure, build systems, and processes
• Oversee day-to-day operations including escalations, alerts, cross-team dependency management, and project tracking.
• Respond to and prioritize customer escalations and internal queries related to container services.
• Track success metrics including build success rates, escalation volumes, and team performance indicators

What We're Looking For :

Base Salary Range $184,000 - $231,000 USD

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.

Chainguard's mission is to be the safe source for open source.

We live and breathe our company values :

A few of the benefits we offer :

If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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