Manager, Software Engineering (Libraries)

1 hour, 52 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Chainguard

Chainguard

Chainguard: Fortified Software Delivery Security for developers and CISOs, ensuring secure by default infrastructure and zero workflow friction.

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2021
$55M raised

Description

  • Provide vision, mentorship, and strategic leadership for an engineering team building and maintaining secure open source libraries at scale.
  • Guide technical direction and product strategy across language ecosystems, dependency management, security hardening, tooling, automation, and services.
  • Set and oversee policies, quality standards, and continuous improvement initiatives while balancing security, performance, stability, and customer value.
  • Manage multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, remove blockers, and support efficient team operations.
  • Improve build and testing infrastructure for reproducible, auditable, and trusted library releases.
  • Oversee vulnerability detection, patching, SBOM generation, and provenance generation across library ecosystems.
  • Drive cross-team collaboration within the Libraries product and partner with engineering and product teams on interoperability and security posture.
  • Stay current on ecosystem developments to keep Guarded Libraries modern, high-quality, and sustainable.
  • Represent Guarded Libraries externally by interfacing with partners, community maintainers, and adoption efforts.

Requirements

  • Proven experience managing and scaling technical teams.
  • Experience building or maintaining Linux operating systems, language ecosystems, open source libraries, or security-focused ecosystems.
  • Strong understanding of software security, including securing build systems and pipelines, software artifacts, and vulnerability management.
  • Strong understanding of language ecosystems such as Python, Go, Java, and JavaScript, especially build systems, dependency management, release management, and vulnerability management.
  • Experience leading teams working with cloud-native technologies and infrastructure.
  • Experience with containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with cloud services such as GCP or AWS.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code practices such as Terraform.
  • Experience with AI-driven infrastructure.
  • Growth-minded approach focused on helping engineers and organizations adapt, anticipate future challenges, and align technical work with business objectives.
  • Preferred: Hands-on experience with open source language and libraries ecosystems, build tools and infrastructure, and automation in cloud-native environments.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $205,000 to $231,000 USD.
  • Flexible remote-first culture with team meetup opportunities and bi-annual destination summits.
  • Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet costs.
  • Stock options upon hire and promotion, plus participation in secondary offerings and a 10-year exercise window.
  • 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and dependents.
  • Unlimited flexible time off.
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

Senior Security Operations Engineer

SWORD Health 251-1K Health Care Providers & Services

Sword Health is hiring a Senior Security Operations Engineer to protect its cloud infrastructure and applications while strengthening incident response and operational security for its AI-first healthcare platform.

AWS Azure Bash GCP Python SIEM Splunk
7 minutes ago

Senior Engineering Manager

CaptivateIQ 251-1K Internet Software & Services

CaptivateIQ is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead distributed engineering teams building its incentive compensation and sales planning platform for plan builders across complex planning, modeling, and documentation workflows.

Python React TypeScript
7 minutes ago

Sr. Mainframe MFA Consultant

WaveStrong, 51-250 Internet Software & Services

Sr. Mainframe MFA Consultant for a 6-month contract supporting z/OS systems protected by RACF, focused on implementing and integrating IBM zMFA with Microsoft Entra ID for interactive access paths.

7 minutes ago

Senior Engineering Manager - AI Agents

CaptivateIQ 251-1K Internet Software & Services

CaptivateIQ is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead its AI Platform team and shape the company’s AI strategy for building and scaling AI agents across its sales performance platform.

Django LLM Python
7 minutes ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers