Senior Engineering Manager, Chainguard
Guarded Containers
$184-231k
Receive stock options upon hire and promotion
Software supply chain security company
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Software supply chain security company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$184-231k
Receive stock options upon hire and promotion
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the software supply chain secure by default.
Role
Who you are
- Proven success managing engineering teams—ideally in container technologies, cloud infrastructure, or product-centric environments—with a genuine, sustained passion for team leadership. Not just comfortable managing people, but deeply motivated by the challenges and rewards of leading technical teams. You find real energy in mentoring, coaching, and unlocking potential in others, and you view team success as the ultimate measure of your own 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
- 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
What the job involves
- The Containers engineering team is responsible for our core product – our minimal, hardened, industry-defining Chainguard Images, and we’re looking for an engineering manager to lead the Tools team within the Containers organization
- You will lead and support the team responsible for the infrastructure and tooling that builds Chainguard Images
- You’ll manage multiple projects in parallel, ensure technical excellence and customer success, and collaborate with other engineering teams who depend on you
- This role is pivotal in ensuring our product is delivered to customers, with high quality, and is able to scale as the company grows rapidly
- 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
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2025
$280m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Apr 2025
$356m
SERIES D
Total funding: $892m
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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