Director-Track Engineering Lead, Container Product (Remote)

Emploive; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 229,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible & Remote-First Culture

Stock options

100% Covered Health Insurance

Flexible Time Off

18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. 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.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams building customer-facing products.
• Experience leading senior engineers (Staff/Principal) on large teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication for remote collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead Container Product Engineering team, set goals, manage performance, and maintain cadence.
• Coach senior engineers, grow career paths, and assist with hiring and calibration.
• Partner with Product to translate requirements into outcomes and protect the team from churn.
• Set the technical bar, review designs, and guide key decisions while staying hands-on.

Skills

Senior mgmt experience

Remote leadership

Strategic thinking

Go/Kubernetes

Cloud experience (AWS/GCP)

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

OCI image format

Sigstore

Cloud: AWS/GCP

Job description

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. 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.