Engineering Manager, AI-Driven CI/CD Tools

Chainguard; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainguard is seeking an engineering manager to lead a fast-moving team shipping tools that developers will actually use — the Guardener, hardened GitHub Actions, Chainguard Agent Skills, and new products built on our microVM sandbox platform.

You'll own these products end-to-end: hire and grow the team, set the roadmap with Product, and stay hands‑on enough to dig into the code. This is a high‑ownership role for someone who moves fast and ships iteratively.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience managing engineers with a genuine, sustained passion for leading and growing a team.
• Track record of shipping products or major features and owning the results.
• Strong technical background; ability to read code, review designs, and reason about architecture and tradeoffs (Go preferred).
• Experience building CI/CD systems, developer tooling, or product-facing platforms; familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with AI tooling and applying it to customer problems.
• Comfort with autonomy, ambiguity, a bias for action, and shipping iteratively.
• Strong communication skills and collaborative work with Product and customers.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of products end-to-end — the Guardener, hardened GitHub Actions, Chainguard Agent Skills, and emerging microVM-based products — from roadmap through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
• Hire, lead, and grow a small team of strong engineers. Remove blockers and create the conditions for them to do their best work.
• Stay technically hands-on: review designs and PRs, prototype when it unblocks the team, and unblock the team
• Partner closely with Product on a roadmap with real deadlines — help the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively rather than waiting for perfect.
• Navigate ambiguous problems and find a clear path forward. You take initiative rather than waiting for complete specs.
• Own the quality and reliability of what you ship, and stay close to customers to turn their feedback directly into the roadmap.

Skills

People management

Ship products

Go programming

CI/CD systems

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

AI tooling

Communication

Autonomy

Tools

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Chainguard is seeking an engineering manager to lead a fast-moving team shipping tools that developers will actually use — the Guardener, hardened GitHub Actions, Chainguard Agent Skills, and new products built on our microVM sandbox platform.

You'll own these products end-to-end: hire and grow the team, set the roadmap with Product, and stay hands‑on enough to dig into the code. This is a high‑ownership role for someone who moves fast and ships iteratively.