Manager, Engineering (Guarded Containers)

Chainguard; United States; Remote; USD 184,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

A software security firm is seeking a Manager of Engineering to lead the Tools team in a remote environment. You will manage multiple projects, ensure technical excellence, and drive team success in building high-quality container images. Ideal candidates have a passion for leadership and experience in container technologies, with excellent communication skills and the ability to manage diverse teams effectively.

Benefits

Flexible & Remote-First Culture

Stock options

100% Covered Health Insurance

∞ Flexible Time Off

18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave

Qualifications

• Proven success managing engineering teams in container technologies or product-centric environments.
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems and automation for container images.
• Excellent organizational skills and project management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a diverse engineering team within the Containers organization.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects, removing blockers and enabling efficient operations.
• Set quality standards and drive continuous improvements to test infrastructure.

Skills

Team leadership

Project management

Container technologies

Communication skills

Job description

Manager, Engineering (Guarded Containers)

United States - Remote

The role in a nutshell:

The Containers engineering team is responsible for our core product – our minimal, hardened, industry-defining Chainguard Images, and we’re looking for an engineering manager to lead the Tools team within the Containers organization.

You will lead and support the team responsible for the infrastructure and tooling that builds Chainguard Images. You’ll manage multiple projects in parallel, ensure technical excellence and customer success, and collaborate with other engineering teams who depend on you. This role is pivotal in ensuring our product is delivered to customers, with high quality, and is able to scale as the company grows rapidly.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead, manage and grow a diverse engineering team within the Containers organization, overseeing our core image build tooling and infrastructure
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, removing blockers and enabling efficient team operations.
• Set quality standards and drive continuous improvements to test infrastructure, build systems, and processes
• Oversee day-to-day operations including escalations, alerts, cross-team dependency management, and project tracking.
• Respond to and prioritize customer escalations and internal queries related to container services.
• Track success metrics including build success rates, escalation volumes, and team performance indicators

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven success managing engineering teams—ideally in container technologies, cloud infrastructure, or product-centric environments—with a genuine, sustained passion for team leadership. Not just comfortable managing people, but deeply motivated by the challenges and rewards of leading technical teams. You find real energy in mentoring, coaching, and unlocking potential in others, and you view team success as the ultimate measure of your own impact.
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems, tooling, and automation for container images.
• Superb organizational skills and project management capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical vision, operational rigor, and cross-team collaboration.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working with multiple time zones and remote/distributed teams is a strong plus

Base Salary Range

$184,000 - $231,000 USD

About Us

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry\'s leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.

Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

We live and breathe our company values:

We are customer obsessed

We have a bias for intentional action

We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work)

We trust each other and assume good intentions

A few of the benefits we offer:

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child\'s first year.
• For a full list of our benefits and rewards, click here .

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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