Senior Engineering Manager, Chainguard

Libraries

Salary not provided

Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!)

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

JavaScript

Python

Java

Linux

Terraform

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

More information about location

Software supply chain security company

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Software supply chain security company

201-500 employees

B2BSecuritySaaSCyber SecurityDevOps

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!)

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

JavaScript

Python

Java

Linux

Terraform

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

More information about location

201-500 employees

B2BSecuritySaaSCyber SecurityDevOps

Company mission

To make the software supply chain secure by default.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Proven track record of managing and scaling technical teams with experience in building or maintaining Linux operating systems, language ecosystems, open source libraries, or security-focused ecosystems
Strong grasp of software security—especially securing build systems and pipelines, software artifacts, and vulnerability management
Strong grasp of language ecosystems (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Javascript)—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) and AI driven infrastructure
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
Preferred: Hands-on experience with open source language & libraries ecosystems; build tools and infrastructure; automation and cloud-native environments
Wanted to lead the development of the world’s most secure open source software libraries—while working from wherever you feel most productive

What the job involves

As a Senior 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
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—spanning vulnerability detection, patching, SBOM and provenance generation across library ecosystems
Drive strong cross-team collaboration within the Libraries product
Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure seamless interoperability and consistent security posture
Stay ahead of ecosystem developments—ensuring Guarded Libraries are modern, high-quality, and setting the benchmark for safe, sustainable open source
Represent Guarded Libraries externally: interfacing with partners, community maintainers, and driving adoption and awareness
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

Our take

Developers rely on open source code and apps in their day to day work, but when the provenance of the code is unknown this creates potential weaknesses that cybercriminals can exploit. Chainguard exists to build security into the coding supply chain by making it possible for companies to enforce security policies based on auditable signatures baked into the code, and by providing a security-first set of container images with no known vulnerabilities for cloud app developers.

In the wake of huge cyber attacks like the Log4j vulnerability and Solarwinds breach, software supply chain security has been an area of major focus for startups hoping to solve problems in this sector. However, most of these focus on scanning and detection of threats. Chainguard's approach comes from the other end of the process, focusing on building security into the software itself. It was built by former Google engineers aware of software developers existing workloads, so is designed to be easily installed and integrated into existing automation systems like Terraform.

Chainguard completed a Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Ventures in 2024, minting it as a new Unicorn on the cybersecurity scene. It is using this funding to expand its go-to-market internationally and expand its Chainguard Images product.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

55% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.2)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Apr 2025

$356m

SERIES D

Jul 2024

$140m

SERIES C

Total funding: $612m

Company benefits

Equity/stock options
Unlimited PTO
Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
Home office and internet stipend
100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family

Company HQ

Everest, Kirkland, WA

Leadership

Dan Lorenc

(CEO & Co-Founder)

Before co-founding Chainguard was a Software Engineer at Google, Disqus and Microsoft.

Kim Lewandowski

(Head of Product & Co-Founder)

Prior to co-founding Chainguard was a Product Manager with Google. Before that was the Head of Product & Engineering at Brit + Co and the founder of Spotwag.

Matthew Moore

(CTO & Co-Founder)

Was a Software Engineer at VMware, Google and Microsoft.

Ville Aikas

(Co-founder)

Was a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and a Software Engineer for Google and the University of Washingtom. Was previously Owner at VA Systems.

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