Engineering Manager, AI CICD

About the role

We're looking for an engineering manager to lead a fast-moving team shipping tools that developers will actually use - the Guardener, hardened GitHub Actions, Chainguard Agent Skills, and new products built on our microVM sandbox platform.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience managing engineers with a genuine, sustained passion for leading and growing a team.
• A track record of shipping products or major features and owning the results.
• Strong technical background - you can still read code, review designs, and reason about architecture and tradeoffs. Proficiency with Go or strong readiness to ramp quickly.
• Experience building CI/CD systems, developer tooling, or product-facing platforms; familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with AI tooling and genuine enthusiasm for applying it to complex customer problems.

What you'll do

• Own a portfolio of products end-to-end - the Guardener, hardened GitHub Actions, Chainguard Agent Skills, and emerging microVM-based products - from roadmap through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
• Hire, lead, and grow a small team of strong engineers. Remove blockers and create the conditions for them to do their best work.
• Stay technically hands-on: review designs and PRs, prototype when it unblocks the team.
• Partner closely with Product on a roadmap with real deadlines - help the team prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively.
• Own the quality and reliability of what you ship, and stay close to customers to turn their feedback directly into the roadmap.

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