Senior Manager, Engineering – Container Product Engineering

Chainguard

. Lead and manage the Container Product Engineering team of about fifteen engineers .

Posted 9/21/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $229,000 - $258,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing engineering teams, with a focus on strategic planning, performance management, and effective communication. Possesses technical fluency in containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure, ensuring alignment of engineering efforts with business objectives.

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Team LeadershipTechnical Fluency with ContainersPerformance ManagementStrategic PlanningExperience with Agentic Coding Tools

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringCode ReviewPull Request ManagementKubernetesGo ServicesCloud InfrastructureGCPAWSCapacity PlanningTechnical Documentation

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCoachingOrganizational SkillsAction-Biased ApproachHandling Underperformance

Tools & Technologies

Agentic Coding ToolsContainer RegistriesOCI Image FormatLinux Distribution

Industry Keywords

Customer-Facing ProductsHyper-Growth CompanyRemote-First TeamNorth AmericaUnited Kingdom

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and manage the Container Product Engineering team of about fifteen engineers
Set clear goals, manage performance, and run a healthy operating cadence
Organize the team into small sub-teams of two to four engineers with clear project ownership
Coach Staff and Principal engineers, give feedback, build career paths, address underperformance, and partner with Recruiting on hiring
Partner with Product Managers and Technical Program Manager to turn requirements into outcomes and projects
Require requirements and design documents before cycles and protect the team from mid-cycle churn
Review designs and pull requests and make or assign final decisions on contested technical issues
Read code, review pull requests, and ship occasionally
Lead adoption of agentic coding tools across design, implementation, review, and operations with safety guardrails
Plan work and headcount, commit to dates, report status, and escalate risks
Collaborate with Guarded OS, Customer Platform, Developer Platform, Sales, Customer Success, Support, and customers
Take on broader scope across the Containers organization as the product and team grow

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years managing engineering teams that build customer-facing products
Experience leading senior engineers, including Staff and Principal level, on a team of ten or more
Experience shipping features to paying customers at a hyper-growth company
Ability to turn ambiguous product goals into concrete technical plans
Strategic thinking and ability to scale with a product in hyper-growth
Experience planning capacity and headcount ahead of need and aligning technical work with business objectives
Hands-on, organized, action-biased approach
Experience reading code and reviewing pull requests
Clear and early communication, upward and outward
Track record of hiring, coaching, promoting, retaining strong engineers, and handling underperformance directly
Daily use of agentic coding tools and experience leading a team to change how it works because of them
Technical fluency with containers, container registries, OCI image format, Kubernetes, Go services, and cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS
Linux distribution or packaging experience is a plus
Experience leading a distributed, remote-first team across North America and Europe
Excellent written communication
North America or the United Kingdom preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Work remotely with team meetup opportunities
Bi-annual destination summits
Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs
Stock options upon hire and promotion
Participation in secondary offerings
10 years to exercise stock options
100% covered health, vision and dental insurance premiums for employee and dependents
Flexible time off
18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
Option to use parental leave all at once or throughout the child's first year