Engineering Manager, AI CICD

The role

You will lead a small team of engineers to own a portfolio of products including the Guardener, hardened GitHub Actions, and microVM-based products. You will manage the product lifecycle from roadmap to implementation while staying hands-on with code and design reviews.

What you will do

• Own a portfolio of products from roadmap through implementation, rollout, and iteration
• Hire, lead, and grow a small team of engineers
• Remove blockers and create conditions for engineers to do their best work
• Review designs and PRs
• Prototype when it unblocks the team
• Partner with Product on a roadmap with real deadlines
• Prioritize tradeoffs and ship iteratively
• Navigate ambiguous problems
• Own the quality and reliability of shipped products
• Turn customer feedback into the roadmap

Required qualifications

• 2+ years experience managing engineers
• Track record of shipping products or major features and owning the results
• Strong technical background to read code, review designs, and reason about architecture
• 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
• Comfort with autonomy and ambiguity
• Bias for action
• Habit of shipping iteratively
• Strong communication skills
• Collaborative spirit

Nice to have

• genuine enthusiasm for applying AI to complex customer problems

Benefits

• 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 options
• 100% Covered Health Insurance for employees and dependents
• Flexible Time Off
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents

Before you apply

• Include the term "DiscoTech" on the resume

About the company

Chainguard is a venture-backed source for open source that delivers hardened, secure, and production-ready builds. They help organizations build faster and eliminate risk by securing the software supply chain.