Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform

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. Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform: Builder of Golden Paths Protecting the software supply chain is one of the most important challenges in technology. At Chainguard, we're building the secure foundation that modern software depends on. Our products help organizations eliminate entire classes of software supply chain risk while enabling developers to move faster, not slower. We're a remote-first company built by industry experts who believe security, reliability, and developer experience should work together. Our engineering culture emphasizes ownership, craftsmanship, continuous learning, and a relentless focus on customer outcomes. If you're excited about solving hard technical problems at scale and building teams that deliver exceptional results, we'd love to talk. The role, in a nutshell:  Chainguard is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Internal Developer Platform team — the group that owns CI/CD, developer tooling, infrastructure automation, and our emerging Agentic Engineering Platform, which lets engineers and AI agents build software together. You'll lead a mature team of senior platform and infrastructure engineers, set the technical roadmap for developer productivity and AI-native engineering, and make sure every engineer at Chainguard can ship software quickly, safely, and with less friction. About the role:  Do you believe great infrastructure should disappear into the background? Do you enjoy helping engineers move faster, safer, and with less friction? Do you thrive leading highly experienced engineers who care deeply about reliability, automation, and developer experience? We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Internal Developer Platform team. 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, this team enables every engineer in the company to deliver software quickly and safely. As Chainguard continues its evolution into an AI-first engineering organization, this team is responsible for building the platforms, golden paths, and guardrails that allow engineers and AI agents to collaborate throughout the software development lifecycle. Reporting to the Senior Director of Platform & Integrations, you will lead a mature, highly skilled team of platform and infrastructure engineers focused on delivering world-class developer experience. This role is ideal for a technical leader who understands modern platform engineering, has strong SRE instincts, and enjoys helping senior engineers operate at their highest level. You Will Be Responsible For:  Developer Experience Making engineers more productive every day by continuously improving the systems, workflows, tooling, and AI capabilities that support software development across Chainguard. Golden Paths Creating opinionated, self-service platform capabilities and AI-native engineering workflows that allow engineers to focus on solving customer problems rather than managing infrastructure or repetitive engineering tasks. CI/CD Excellence Owning and evolving our software delivery systems, ensuring builds, testing, releases, and deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and scalable. Platform Reliability Driving operational excellence through SLOs, observability, automation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement. Agentic Engineering Platform Own and evolve Chainguard's Agentic Engineering Platform, enabling engineers to leverage AI across the software development lifecycle. Build the shared infrastructure, tooling, context management, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails that make AI-assisted engineering secure, scalable, and effective. Team Leadership Leading a highly experienced team of senior engineers. Removing obstacles, creating clarity, and fostering an environment where engineers can do exceptional work. Infrastructure Automation Advancing Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and platform automation initiatives that improve consistency and reduce operational burden. Technical Strategy Define and execute the roadmap for both the Internal Developer Platform and the Agentic Engineering Platform, balancing short-term engineering needs with long-term investments in developer productivity, AI capabilities, reliability, and security. Cross-Functional Collaboration Partnering closely with application teams, security teams, and engineering leadership to understand developer needs and prioritize platform investments. Incident Leadership Participating in operational reviews, postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts while promoting a strong reliability culture. AI Engineering Enablement Drive the adoption of AI across Engineering. Partner with engineering teams to identify opportunities, establish best practices, and continuously improve developer productivity through AI. Qualifications:  Engineering Leadership Experience managing software, infrastructure, platform, or SRE teams. Proven success leading highly experienced engineers. Strong coaching, communication, and organizational skills. Champion AI adoption across Engineering by leading through example. Engineering leaders are expected to actively use AI in their own workflows and help their te