Chainguard provides trusted open source artifacts for every layer of your modern software stack—containers, language libraries, and VM images. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
About the role
Chainguard Containers is our core product, and we're hiring the leader for the team that builds it. As Senior Engineering Manager for Container Product Engineering, you will lead a team of about fifteen engineers who design and ship the features, services, and build systems behind Chainguard Containers. This is a Director-track role reporting directly to the VP of Engineering for Containers, Libraries, and Repositories.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years managing engineering teams that build customer-facing products
- Experience leading senior engineers, including Staff and Principal level, on a team of ten or more. You know how to give a Principal engineer room and still hold them accountable
- Real product engineering depth. You have shipped features to paying customers at a company in hyper-growth, and you can turn ambiguous product goals into concrete technical plans
- A strategic thinker who can scale with a product in hyper-growth. You anticipate what breaks next, plan capacity and headcount ahead of need, and align technical work with business objectives
- Hands-on and organized. Action-biased. You find a way. You still read code and review pull requests, and you run a tight operating cadence without process for its own sake
- Low ego. You do what you say and say what you do. You communicate clearly and early, upward and outward, especially when the news is bad
More about this role
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.
Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.
Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures,...
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