Manager, Software Engineering (Libraries Automation)

Chainguard
United Kingdom
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Mentorship","Strategic leadership","Cross-functional collaboration","Continuous improvement","Customer focus"]

Lead a team building and maintaining Chainguard’s secure-by-default open source libraries. Own technical vision and strategy across language ecosystems, dependency management, security hardening, build/test automation, and trusted release generation (e.g., SBOM and provenance). Guide reproducible, auditable library outputs, partner across engineering and product for consistent security posture, and represent the Libraries team externally to drive adoption and community engagement.

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Chainguard
Chainguard
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Manager, Software Engineering (Libraries Automation)

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Job Summary

Lead a team building and maintaining Chainguard’s secure-by-default open source libraries. Own technical vision and strategy across language ecosystems, dependency management, security hardening, build/test automation, and trusted release generation (e.g., SBOM and provenance). Guide reproducible, auditable library outputs, partner across engineering and product for consistent security posture, and represent the Libraries team externally to drive adoption and community engagement.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide vision, mentorship, and strategic leadership for an engineering team building and maintaining secure open source libraries at scale.
  • •Direct technical strategy across language ecosystems, dependency management, security hardening, tooling, automation, and services.
  • •Set and oversee policies, quality standards, and continuous improvement balancing security, performance, stability, and customer value.
  • •Own development artifacts such as comparator gates, LLM-based judge rubrics, language-specific build systems, and AI automation behind quality gates.
  • •Steer improvements to build and testing infrastructure for reproducible, auditable library releases including vulnerability detection, patching, SBOM, and provenance generation, and partner to ensure interoperability and consistent security posture.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkHealth InsuranceEquityParental LeavePaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Proven track record managing and scaling technical teams building or maintaining platforms at scale.
  • •Experience managing teams shipping agentic AI in production, including evaluation suites and LLM-judge rubrics, plus automation behind measurable quality gates.
  • •Strong grasp of language ecosystems (e.g., Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET) with experience in build systems, dependency management, release management, and vulnerability management.
  • •Experience leading cloud-native infrastructure work, including containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud services (GCP, AWS), and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
  • •Growth mindset focused on helping engineers and organizations adapt while aligning technical work to broader business objectives.
Experience:Open sourcePlatformAgentic AICloud-nativeInfrastructure as code
Skills:MentorshipStrategic leadershipCross-functional collaborationContinuous improvementCustomer focus
Tech Stack:PythonGoJavaJavaScriptTypeScriptC#.NETDockerKubernetesGCPAWSTerraformSBOMProvenanceLLMLLM-judge rubricsAgentic AI

Company Brief

Chainguard
Builds software supply chain security solutions for containerized and Kubernetes-native environments, offering tools for secure builds, attestations, vulnerability scanning, and policy enforcement to help organizations deploy trustworthy software at scale.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: Seattle, United States
Founded: 2020
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