Manager, Software Engineering (Libraries Automation)

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

The role, in a nutshell: Ever wanted to lead the development of the world’s most secure open source software libraries? As a Manager within our 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.
• Own the development artifact specific comparator gates, LLM-based judge rubrics, language specific build systems, and novel AI automation.
• 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.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure seamless interoperability and consistent security posture.
• Represent Chainguard Libraries externally: interfacing with partners, community maintainers, and driving adoption and awareness.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven track record of managing and scaling technical teams with experience in building or maintaining platforms at scale.
• Experience managing teams that ship agentic AI in production: shipping agentic tools, designing evaluation suites and LLM-judge rubrics, curating the knowledge that steers agents (skills, prompts, fixtures), and expanding automation behind measurable quality gates.
• Strong grasp of language ecosystems (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Javascript, .NET) focused on build systems, dependency management, release management and vulnerability management.
• Experience leading teams that work with cloud-native technologies and infrastructure, including containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), cloud services (e.g., GCP, AWS), infrastructure as code practices (e.g., Terraform).
• Growth-minded committed to helping engineers and organizations adapt and thrive as the technical landscape evolves, while anticipating future challenges, plan for growth, and align technical work with broader business objectives.

About Us: 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. We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer:

• 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. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 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.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks 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.

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. Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard's Global Candidate Privacy Notice.