Senior Manager of Engineering (Container Product Engineering)

Join Chainguard, a rapidly growing company focused on securing the software supply chain. As the Senior Manager of Engineering for Container Product Engineering, you will lead a team of engineers in designing and shipping features, services, and build systems for Chainguard Containers. This is a Director-track role that requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and a passion for building secure software.

- Experience leading a distributed, remote-first team across North America and Europe, with excellent written communication
- Experience leading senior engineers, including Staff and Principal level, on a team of ten or more. You know how to give a Principal engineer room and still hold them accountable
- Hands-on and organized. Action-biased. You find a way. You still read code and review pull requests, and you run a tight operating cadence without process for its own sake
- Real product engineering depth. You have shipped features to paying customers at a company in hyper-growth, and you can turn ambiguous product goals into concrete technical plans
- 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years managing engineering teams that build customer-facing products
- Low ego. You do what you say and say what you do. You communicate clearly and early, upward and outward, especially when the news is bad
- A strategic thinker who can scale with a product in hyper-growth. You anticipate what breaks next, plan capacity and headcount ahead of need, and align technical work with business objectives
- Technical fluency with containers, container registries and the OCI image format (Open Container Initiative, the standard for container images and registries), Kubernetes, services written in Go, and cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS. Linux distribution or packaging experience is a plus
- You grow engineers and build teams people want to join. A track record of hiring, coaching, promoting, and retaining strong engineers, and of handling underperformance directly
- Location: Remote. North America or the United Kingdom preferred
- AI-native in how you build and lead. You use agentic coding tools daily, and you have led a team to change how it works because of them
- If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences