Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform at Chainguard · LumiJobs · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

The Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform is the builder of golden paths at Chainguard. This is a people-first, technically credible leadership role for someone who believes great infrastructure should disappear into the background — empowering engineers to move faster, safer, and with less friction.
This team owns the systems, tooling, automation, and workflows that power engineering productivity across Chainguard — from CI/CD and developer environments to infrastructure automation and deployment workflows. Critically, this team is one by one chipping away at a core dependency on third-party infrastructure that has proven unreliable, reimplementing it in a way that Chainguard owns and controls. This is a high-visibility, strategically important team.
Reporting to the Senior Director of Platform Integrations, you will lead a mature, highly experienced team — including multiple principal engineers. This is not a team that needs hand-holding. It needs a leader who knows how to manage senior talent: someone who can set context, remove obstacles, create clarity, and foster an environment where exceptional engineers can do exceptional work. Managing a team with principal engineers means your comp will not necessarily be the highest on the team — a mature manager has seen this before and understands it.
We are open to a Manager or Senior Manager depending on experience. The ideal Senior Manager candidate brings 5–10+ years of engineering management experience with a clear upward trajectory. For the manager level, we are looking for 2–3+ years of engineering management experience at minimum. We will not hire an external candidate into this role as their first management position.
Developer Experience
Make engineers more productive every day. Continuously improve the systems, workflows, and tooling that support software development across Chainguard.
Create opinionated, self-service platform capabilities that allow engineering teams to focus on solving customer problems rather than managing infrastructure.
CI/CD Excellence
Own and evolve our software delivery systems, ensuring builds, testing, releases, and deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and scalable.
Platform Reliability
Drive operational excellence through SLOs, observability, automation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.
Lead a highly experienced team of senior and principal engineers. Remove obstacles, create clarity, and foster an environment where engineers can do exceptional work.

Qualification

Engineering LeadershipStrong coachingPlatform Infrastructure DomainBackground in platform engineeringSRE OperationsExperience with incident managementSRE management experiencePrior experience at DigitalOceanWe live and breathe our company values

Required

Engineering Leadership
2–3+ years of engineering management experience for Manager level; 5–10+ years for Senior Manager level.
Proven experience managing highly experienced and senior engineers — including principal-level talent.
Comfort with the compensation dynamics of managing senior individual contributors.
Strong coaching, communication, and organizational skills.
Technical enough to read and occasionally contribute to code — this is not a pure people management role. Chainguard managers are expected to stay technically engaged.
Platform Infrastructure Domain
Background in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure — someone with that as a basis will have the right domain expertise to lead this team.
Understanding of and appreciation for the open source and security world.
Experience building and operating Internal Developer Platforms, golden path tooling, or similar engineering productivity systems.
SRE Operations
Experience with incident management, SLOs, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence.

Preferred

Background in Linux distributions or OS-level systems.
Experience in security-focused organizations or with software supply chain security practices.
SRE management experience.
Prior experience at DigitalOcean, Rackspace, or similar infrastructure-focused technology companies.
We live and breathe our company values:
We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
We don t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.

Engineering Manager, Internal Developer Platform

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Chainguard

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