Manager, Engineering – Guarded Containers
Posted 13ds ago
Employment Information
Job Description
Lead the Containers Tools engineering team to maintain and scale image build tooling and infrastructure. Ensure technical excellence, operational rigor, and customer-facing reliability for Chainguard Images.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure product delivery, technical excellence, and scalability.
Requirements:
- Proven success managing engineering teams—ideally in container technologies, cloud infrastructure, or product-centric environments—with a genuine, sustained passion for team leadership.
- Deeply motivated by mentoring, coaching, and unlocking potential in others, and view team success as the ultimate measure of 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.
Benefits:
- 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; participate in secondary offerings; 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.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave 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.
- Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Team meetup opportunities and bi-annual destination summits.
