Chainguard

Engineering Manager

• 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

Senior Manager, Engineering – Container Product Engineering

Director

• Set and own Chainguard’s European policy strategy, including priorities, positions, target institutions and officials, and policy narrative.
• Engage governments, regulators, and standards bodies across Europe and the UK, including the European Commission, European Parliament, ENISA, CEN-CENELEC, and ETSI.
• Determine when to use industry coalitions versus direct advocacy and represent Chainguard in relevant bodies.
• Forecast political and policy developments relevant to Chainguard.
• Develop policy positions, consultation responses, and written submissions.
• Speak on Chainguard’s behalf in public and industry forums.
• Translate technical concepts into policy language and emerging requirements into implications for messaging and roadmap.
• Support product, marketing, and revenue teams with policy credibility and positioning.
• Build repeatable European government affairs processes, relationships, and intelligence flows.
• Help build toward leading a regional team as the business grows.

Director, EMEA Government Affairs – Public Policy

Manager

• Own end-to-end Professional Services delivery across onboarding, implementation, advisory, and expansion for the Enterprise segment.
• Monitor and improve utilization, on-time delivery, and customer satisfaction KPIs.
• Serve as escalation point for complex or at-risk engagements.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Solutions Architects.
• Set performance expectations, coach team members, and own career development and succession planning.
• Partner with Professional Services leadership on hiring and capacity planning.
• Standardize delivery methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Improve operational processes for efficiency, scalability, and predictability.
• Collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Support.
• Support pre-sales on strategic or complex opportunities.
• Funnel customer feedback into product and services improvements.
• Partner with Professional Services leadership to evolve services packaging and pricing.
• Ensure customers achieve defined business outcomes through services engagements.
• Identify expansion opportunities with Sales and Customer Success.
• Proactively manage escalations and capture customer insights to improve delivery.

Senior Manager, Professional Services

Business Development Rep

• Drive enterprise account strategy by mapping target accounts and identifying entry points across security, platform, and engineering teams with AEs
• Run personalized, technical outbound outreach to developers, DevOps, and security leaders
• Research containers, CI/CD, and cloud environments to make outreach relevant and credible
• Lead early conversations and qualify opportunities based on technical context, risk posture, and business priorities
• Build quality pipeline and opportunities that progress
• Collaborate with AEs on account plans, messaging, and deal progression
• Use Salesforce, Outreach/Salesloft, and data tools efficiently
• Test messaging, share insights, and refine market engagement
• Feed technical-buyer insights to marketing and product

Enterprise Business Development Representative

Full-stack Engineer

• Lead engineering of Chainguard's malware-scanning platform
• Own platform architecture, scale, and reliability
• Build measurement pipelines, metrics, and dashboards for detection coverage and precision
• Engineer feedback loops between Engineering and Product Security for rapid detection evaluation and shipping
• Build systems for reviewing, escalating, and correcting detections, including bulk correction at ecosystem scale
• Own scan orchestration, verdict storage, and APIs used by consuming products
• Scale scanning from Libraries to Containers, Agent Skills, and future artifact types
• Balance detection quality, performance, extensibility, throughput, latency, and cost
• Build deterministic static analysis and AI-assisted reasoning over artifact contents
• Take emerging-threat detections from research prototype to production
• Build APIs and services for investigating, enforcing, and appealing scanner findings
• Build backend services for policy management and enterprise-scale operations
• Operate the scanner in the critical path of customer installations, including alerting, queue health, verdict-before-serve guarantees, and incident response
• Mentor engineers and influence Product, Security, Design, and GTM partners

Staff Software Engineer, Malware Detection

Total Rewards

• Own and set Chainguard's total rewards strategy across compensation and benefits.
• Manage and develop the Total Rewards team.
• Lead global compensation and benefits strategy as Chainguard expands into international markets, including the UK, Canada, and Germany.
• Partner with the business to balance employee experience with cost efficiency.
• Identify legacy programs or underutilized benefits that can be redesigned or retired.
• Stay ahead of compensation and benefits market trends.
• Oversee banding, market pricing, and merit cycles with the Compensation Manager.
• Advise leadership on compensation and benefits strategy tied to headcount growth and cost management.
• Build scalable total rewards processes as the team and company grow.

Director of Total Rewards

People Operations

• Own and scale core employee lifecycle processes, including onboarding, offboarding, compliance training, promotions, and job changes
• Lead the People Operations team, currently one manager with two direct reports
• Make HR Operations more visible and accessible to employees
• Lead the operational work of opening new legal entities internationally, including the UK, Canada, Germany, and additional countries
• Maintain HR operations and compliance across all countries where Chainguard operates
• Partner with Finance and Legal on compliance, payroll, and legal requirements in new countries
• Manage and expand the Employer of Record provider partnership for remote employees across approximately 19 countries
• Build scalable People Operations processes, templates, and resources
• Use AI to design more efficient People Operations processes and improve the employee experience