Lead, Secure Open-Source Libraries Automation

Chainguard; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible & Remote-First Culture

Our Approach to Equity

100% Covered Health Insurance

Flexible Time Off

18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Chainguard, the trusted source for open source, is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering (Libraries Automation) to lead remote UK teams delivering secure OSS libraries. You will steer reliability, compliance and continuous innovation across Chainguard Libraries, partnering with product and engineering to raise the bar for security and performance.

You’ll mentor a diverse group, set technical direction, and drive automation to ensure auditable releases and robust build systems across ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Strong track record of managing and scaling engineering teams.
• Experience shipping agentic AI in production and building evaluation rubrics.
• Leadership of cloud-native platforms using containerization and IaC.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Own the development artifact specific comparator gates, LLM-based judge rubrics, language specific build systems, and novel AI automation.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Security focus

AI tooling

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Chainguard, the trusted source for open source, is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering (Libraries Automation) to lead remote UK teams delivering secure OSS libraries. You will steer reliability, compliance and continuous innovation across Chainguard Libraries, partnering with product and engineering to raise the bar for security and performance.

You’ll mentor a diverse group, set technical direction, and drive automation to ensure auditable releases and robust build systems across ecosystems.