Manager Software Engineering
Role Overview
This senior-level role involves managing an engineering team focused on developing and maintaining secure open source libraries at scale. Day-to-day responsibilities include providing strategic leadership, guiding technical direction across language ecosystems, and overseeing projects to ensure reliability and compliance. The hire will impact the security and innovation of Chainguard's library ecosystem, trusted by security-focused organizations.
Perks & Benefits
This is a fully remote position based in the US, offering flexibility to work from anywhere productive. It includes opportunities for career growth through leadership in a cutting-edge security environment, with a culture centered on innovation and making open source software safer. Reasonable assumptions include typical tech job benefits like health insurance and professional development support.
Full Job Description
Manager, Engineering (Guarded Libraries) Location: Remote - US The role, in a nutshell: Ever wanted to lead the development of the world's most secure open source software libraries—while working from wherever you feel most productive? As a Manager within our Guarded Libraries product, you'll help drive the evolution of Chainguard's secure-by-default library ecosystem, trusted by some of the most security-focused organizations. Your leadership and strategic guidance will define reliability, compliance, and continuous innovation across Chainguard Libraries, powering applications, services, and infrastructure. Join us on our mission to make open source software not just safe, but the safest, helping Chainguard build the secure underpinnings the industry needs. What you'll do:
Provide vision, mentorship, and strategic leadership for a diverse engineering team building and maintaining secure open source libraries at scale.
Guide the technical direction and product strategy spanning language ecosystems, dependency management, security hardening, tooling, automation and services.
Set and oversee policies, quality standards and continuous improvement, balancing world-class security practices, performance, stability, and customer value.
Manage multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, removing blockers and enabling efficient team operations.
Steer enhancements to the build and testing infrastructure for reproducible, auditable, and trusted library releases including vulnerability detection, patching, SBOM and provenance generation across library ecosystems.
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