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<h2>About Docker</h2>Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default._______________________________________________________________________We're building AI-native development practices into how this team works at a foundational level. That means infrastructure design needs to account for a new kind of collaborator: AI agents that generate, deploy, and operate software. The Staff Infrastructure Engineer on this team will keep systems running, define what safe, observable, AI-assisted infrastructure operations look like in practice, and set the standard for how the broader engineering organization follows.<h1>What you'll work on</h1>The Billing Platform Engineering team owns the systems that make Docker's commercial model real. You'll work on problems like:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>How do we design infrastructure that makes AI-generated deployments safe to ship and easy to roll back?</li><li>How do we instrument billing systems so that failures — billing miscalculations, entitlement gaps, payment errors — are detected immediately and unambiguously?</li><li>How do we build infrastructure that scales with usage-based billing workloads without manual intervention?</li><li>How do we make the developer experience on this team faster and more reliable — local environments, CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling?</li></ul><h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Own and evolve the infrastructure supporting Billing Platform services: compute, storage, networking, CI/CD, and observability</li><li>Design and maintain IaC (Terraform) for billing system infrastructure on AWS; set module patterns and standards for the team</li><li>Build and own observability systems — metrics, logging, alerting — with a focus on billing accuracy and payment reliability</li><li>Define deployment patterns and runbooks that work well in an AI-agent-assisted development workflow: clear rollback procedures, safe promotion gates, automated validation</li><li>Partner with software engineers on service design — bringing infrastructure constraints and operational requirements into the conversation before code is written</li><li>Identify systemic risks and drive improvements that span team or organizational boundaries</li><li>Lead incident response for billing system issues. This role may require participation in an on-call rotation to provide support outside of standard business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, as needed.</li><li>Mentor engineers across the team; your technical judgment should raise the floor for everyone</li></ul><h1>Qualifications</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles supporting production SaaS systems at scale</li><li>Deep AWS expertise: ECS or EKS, RDS (Postgres preferred), networking, IAM, cost management — you've operated these systems under real load and real incidents</li><li>Expert-level Terraform; you've designed reusable module patterns and set standards others follow</li><li>Experience building and owning observability stacks (Datadog, Grafana, or similar) at an organizational level — not just using them</li><li>Strong familiarity with CI/CD systems — Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent — including pipeline design and developer experience ownership</li><li>Kubernetes at an operational and architectural level</li><li>A track record of identifying systemic risks and driving improvements that span team or organizational boundaries</li><li>Security-first mindset: threat modeling, blast radius analysis, least-privilege by default, audit trails as a design requirement</li><li>Strong written English; at Staff level, written communication is how you scale your influence across teams</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience</li></ul><h1>What sets you apart</h1>You don't wait for problems to be handed to you — you find them, frame them, and drive the solution. You've operated at a scope where your decisions affected multiple teams or systems, and you know how to build consensus and move work forward without direct authority. You've thought seriously about what infrastructure needs to look like when AI agents are generating and shipping code — safe deployment patterns, strong observability, clean rollback — and you want to help define that standard here. Experience with billing, payments, or financial systems infrastructure is a meaningful plus.<h1>What to Expect First 30 Days</h1>You will ship code in your first week. We run an agent-first development workflow — infrastructure changes start with a plan, specifications are written before generation, and every change is reviewed before it merges — and onboarding is no exception. You will get hands-on with the infrastructure supporting Billing Platform services early, shadow on-call, and build a clear picture of the system before you start making bigger changes. By the end of 30 days you will have shipped real work and know where the most important problems are.<h2>First 90 Days</h2>You will have taken ownership of one or more infrastructure components and delivered an improvement from design to production with measurable impact. You will be an active participant in deployment and reliability discussions, bringing infrastructure constraints and operational requirements into the conversation early — before code is written. You will be a full participant in the on-call rotation and have begun shaping the team's technical direction.<h2>One Year Outlook</h2>You will be the team's trusted authority on billing infrastructure. You will have driven meaningful improvements to observability, deployment safety, or platform reliability — and your work will be directly visible in the resilience and correctness of systems that handle real financial transactions for millions of Docker users. You will have helped define what AI-agent-assisted infrastructure operations look like done right, and that standard will be visible beyond this team.Docker considers sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.<div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div>Compensation &amp; EquityUnited States: $170,350 – $275,550 + equity______________________________________________________________________<h2>Posting Information</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Open vacancy: This posting is for an existing open role.</li><li>AI in hiring: Docker may use AI-assisted tools during our recruiting process.</li><li>Interview recordings: Candidates will be invited to opt in to interview recordings to support interviewer calibration and consistent evaluations. Recordings are optional and require explicit consent.</li></ul>______________________________________________________________________<h2>Perks &amp; Benefits</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Remote-first by design – Work from your home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.</li><li>Flexibility that fits your life – We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering great work.</li><li>Time to recharge – Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break.</li><li>Home office support – Set up your workspace for comfort and success.</li><li>Technology stipend – Equivalent to US$100 net per month to help support your work.</li><li>Learning &amp; development – Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning.</li><li>Parental leave – 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.</li><li>Equity for all full-time employees – Share in Docker's long-term success as we continue to grow.</li><li>Comprehensive benefits – Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country.</li><li>Docker swag – Because representing the whale never gets old.</li></ul>Docker is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe diverse teams build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our global community.#LI-REMOTE

Staff Software Engineer, Billing

<h2>About Docker</h2>Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default._______________________________________________________________________The Senior Principal Software Engineer is responsible for shaping and evolving the company’s technical landscape. In addition to designing, developing, and maintaining core systems, the Senior Principal Software Engineer provides strategic guidance to align technology initiatives with business goals. This role is vital in ensuring that the platform is secure, scalable, and performant—capable of supporting rapid growth and driving innovation.<h1>Responsibilities</h1>Technical Strategy &amp; Architecture● Define and drive the overarching technical vision, ensuring the platform meets current and future scalability, performance, and security needs● Evaluate and select tools, frameworks, and architectures to maintain a state-of-the-art technology stackLeadership &amp; Mentorship● Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering organization, setting best practices and standards.● Coach and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaborationInnovation &amp; Research● Investigate emerging technologies, frameworks, and best practices● Lead prototyping initiatives and proof-of-concepts that can transform the platform’s capabilitiesScalability &amp; Performance● Ensure the platform is designed for high performance and can seamlessly handle increasing user loads● Oversee performance optimization, load balancing, and capacity planning strategiesReliability &amp; Availability● Design fault-tolerant, highly available systems that minimize downtime and deliver a seamless user experience Infrastructure Automation● Advocate for and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, CI/CD pipelines, and automation best practices● Continuously refine deployment, testing, and operations processes to improve efficiencySecurity &amp; Compliance● Collaborate with security experts to ensure platform integrity, compliance with industry standards, and protection of sensitive data● Proactively address security vulnerabilities and champion secure coding practicesCross-Functional Collaboration● Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to ensure technical initiatives support business objectives● Drive alignment between engineering roadmaps and product strategiesTechnical Problem-Solving● Tackle complex architectural and technical issues, providing clear direction and innovative solutions● Serve as an escalation point for critical system challengesCode Quality &amp; Reviews● Uphold coding standards through thorough code reviews, ensuring high-quality, maintainable codebases● Establish and enforce best practices around testing, documentation, and version controlDocumentation &amp; Knowledge Sharing● Produce comprehensive technical documentation, including architectural diagrams, design guidelines, and operational runbooks● Promote a transparent engineering culture by sharing insights and successes across the organization<h1>Qualifications</h1>● 12+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise across multiple domains (SDLC, AI engineering, corporate systems, etc)● Extensive software engineering experience, with a track record in designing and implementing large-scale, distributed systems● Deep technical expertise: Proficiency in multiple programming languages, cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern development frameworks● Leadership acumen: Demonstrated ability to lead diverse engineering teams, inspire innovation, and drive successful outcomes● Architectural vision: Proven skill in defining and driving architectural roadmaps that align with evolving business needs.● Problem-solving ability: Expertise in diagnosing complex system issues and designing robust, scalable solutions● Communication skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of influencing both technical and non-technical stakeholders.● Security conscious: Solid understanding of security best practices, compliance standards, and data protection● Continuous improvement mindset: Passion for optimizing processes, toolchains, and workflows● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experienceAs a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will not only architect innovative solutions but also shape the technical culture. Your leadership and expertise will be pivotal in building a resilient, cutting-edge platform that supports rapid growth and drives long-term success.Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.<div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div>Compensation &amp; EquityUnited States: $219K – $352K + equity______________________________________________________________________<h2>Posting Information</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Open vacancy: This posting is for an existing open role.</li><li>AI in hiring: Docker may use AI-assisted tools during our recruiting process.</li><li>Interview recordings: Candidates will be invited to opt in to interview recordings to support interviewer calibration and consistent evaluations. Recordings are optional and require explicit consent.</li></ul>______________________________________________________________________<h2>Perks &amp; Benefits</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Remote-first by design – Work from your home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.</li><li>Flexibility that fits your life – We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering great work.</li><li>Time to recharge – Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break.</li><li>Home office support – Set up your workspace for comfort and success.</li><li>Technology stipend – Equivalent to US$100 net per month to help support your work.</li><li>Learning &amp; development – Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning.</li><li>Parental leave – 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.</li><li>Equity for all full-time employees – Share in Docker's long-term success as we continue to grow.</li><li>Comprehensive benefits – Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country.</li><li>Docker swag – Because representing the whale never gets old.</li></ul>Docker is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe diverse teams build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our global community.#LI-REMOTE

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Networking

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.The Developer Experience team builds the backend systems and product capabilities that help developers understand, secure and ship software with confidence. The team powers important parts of Docker Scout, Docker Hardened Images and the workflows that turn supply-chain data into useful developer experiences.Our systems are deliberately polyglot. Today that includes Clojure and Go services, event-driven workflows, Kafka, legacy Datomic components and newer Spanner-backed services. We will keep evolving the stack as the product and business change. We are looking for an adaptable backend engineer who can become effective in an unfamiliar codebase, choose technology pragmatically and help other engineers do the same. Clojure experience is useful, but it is not a requirement and this is not a Clojure-specialist role.We make extensive use of AI-assisted engineering tools. We expect engineers to use them thoughtfully, validate their output and remain accountable for the quality, security and operability of what ships. At Staff level, you will also help the team turn good individual practice into repeatable workflows, controls and shared standards.As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead ambiguous, cross-team work from problem definition through measurable outcomes. You will remain hands-on in code while shaping architecture, raising operational standards and creating enough clarity for several engineers and partner teams to move quickly. Work may span developer-facing features, build and artefact workflows, data and event pipelines, platform evolution and integrations with Docker's build and security systems.<h1>Success in This Role Looks Like</h1>You will succeed by finding the highest-leverage problem, creating momentum before every detail is known and bringing people with you. Within your first year, teams should be delivering more confidently because you have made system boundaries clearer, reduced operational risk, connected technical choices to customer outcomes and helped senior engineers take on larger work.<h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Set technical direction for major backend and developer-experience initiatives across Clojure, Go and adjacent systems.</li><li>Turn ambiguous product or platform problems into clear plans, staged decisions and measurable outcomes.</li><li>Design, build and operate distributed services, event pipelines, databases and APIs with strong security and reliability characteristics.</li><li>Lead cross-team delivery, surface risks early and remove technical or organisational blockers without waiting for formal authority.</li><li>Make pragmatic recommendations about when to retain, evolve or replace existing components, including the continued reduction of legacy Datomic dependencies.</li><li>Partner with Product, Design, Security and other engineering teams to connect technical investment to developer and business outcomes.</li><li>Improve observability, incident readiness, performance and service ownership across the Developer Experience estate.</li><li>Improve engineering leverage through appropriate automation, AI-assisted workflows and controls that preserve human accountability.</li><li>Mentor senior engineers, raise the quality of design and code reviews and create reusable patterns that multiply the team.</li><li>Stay hands-on through implementation, debugging and the team's paid on-call rotation.</li><li>Communicate decisions and trade-offs clearly in a remote, async-first environment.</li></ul><h1>Qualifications</h1><h2>Required</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience</li><li>Deep experience designing, building and operating production backend or platform systems.</li><li>Strong programming ability in at least one production language, with evidence of becoming effective in unfamiliar languages and codebases.</li><li>Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, relational or distributed databases and cloud-native infrastructure.</li><li>A track record of leading complex initiatives that crossed team or organisational boundaries.</li><li>Strong technical and product judgement, including the ability to explain constraints, alternatives, customer outcomes and business trade-offs.</li><li>Evidence of influencing without authority and improving the effectiveness of other experienced engineers.</li><li>An operational mindset that treats observability, resilience, incident response and on-call ownership as part of engineering.</li><li>Comfort using AI-assisted engineering tools critically while retaining ownership of the result.</li><li>Clear written and spoken communication suited to a remote, async-first company.</li></ul><h2>Helpful, but not required</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Production experience with Go, Clojure or both.</li><li>Experience with Spanner, Datomic, Kafka or other distributed data and streaming platforms.</li><li>Experience with build systems, containers, artefact workflows or developer tooling.</li><li>Experience evolving a platform, database or language strategy without disrupting product delivery.</li><li>Experience building security or software supply-chain products.</li></ul><h1>What to Expect</h1><h2>First 30 Days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build context on Developer Experience products, customers, architecture and current priorities.</li><li>Pair across Clojure, Go, Datomic and Spanner-backed systems and ship a useful production change.</li><li>Understand the operational profile of the team's services, including on-call and recurring failure modes.</li><li>Build working relationships with Product, Design, Security and adjacent engineering teams.</li><li>Learn the team's AI-assisted engineering practices and identify where shared controls or workflows would improve them.</li></ul><h2>First 90 Days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Lead the technical framing and delivery plan for one significant team or cross-team problem.</li><li>Contribute production code in the parts of the stack needed to move that work forward.</li><li>Identify and begin addressing a material reliability, observability, data or architectural weakness.</li><li>Establish a mentoring and design-review cadence that helps other engineers own larger decisions.</li></ul><h2>One Year Outlook (First Year)</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Be a trusted technical leader for Developer Experience and a sought-after partner across Docker.</li><li>Deliver at least one material product or platform outcome spanning multiple teams or systems.</li><li>Improve the reliability, clarity and delivery speed of the backend and data estate.</li><li>Shape pragmatic evolution across Clojure, Go, Datomic, Spanner and future technologies without turning technology choice into the goal.</li><li>Grow other senior engineers into broader ownership and reduce the number of decisions that depend on a small set of people.</li></ul>Docker considers sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.<div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div>Compensation &amp; EquityEU: €110,500 – €181,500+ equityUnited States: $170,350 – $275,550 + equityPerks<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Freedom &amp; flexibility; fit your work around your life</li><li>Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break</li><li>Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work</li><li>16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)</li><li>Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month</li><li>PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy</li><li>Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes</li><li>Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company</li><li>Docker Swag</li><li>Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country</li><li>Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris</li></ul>Docker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.#LI-REMOTE

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.The Secure Build team builds and operates the infrastructure behind Docker's container builds. The team owns Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds while developing the next generation of trusted build and CI capabilities.Software is being changed faster than ever, but CI remains a bottleneck and a major trust boundary. Developers and software agents need to run build and test work quickly without exposing secrets, losing local-to-cloud parity or accepting an unverifiable result. Our direction is to make Docker the trusted place CI runs and turn that constraint into an accelerator.The technical work spans Go services, container and build technology, cloud infrastructure, isolated execution and software supply-chain security. It also requires disciplined operation of the production systems customers rely on today. Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds will need targeted reliability and operational improvements while useful capabilities evolve towards a coherent Secure Build platform.As a Senior Software Engineer, you will turn these problems into practical product and technical outcomes. You will own substantial work from discovery and design through production, make sound security and reliability trade-offs, and stay close to the experience of developers and the agents they delegate work to.We make extensive use of AI-assisted engineering tools. We expect engineers to use them thoughtfully, validate their output and remain accountable for the quality and security of what ships.<h1>Success in This Role Looks Like</h1>You will succeed by becoming an end-to-end owner for secure, reliable build infrastructure. Within your first year, you should have delivered a material secure-build or CI capability, reduced operational risk in Docker Build Cloud or Auto Builds, and become a trusted partner to the teams and customers that consume the platform.<h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Turn developer, agent and security problems into clear requirements, staged technical decisions and measurable outcomes.</li><li>Design, build and operate Go services and APIs that power Docker's build and secure-CI infrastructure.</li><li>Develop isolation, identity, policy, provenance, attestation and signing capabilities for trusted build and test jobs.</li><li>Work with container, OCI, BuildKit, cloud and isolated-execution technologies to deliver secure and reproducible workflows.</li><li>Own features from technical design through rollout, observability, incident response and ongoing maintenance.</li><li>Keep Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds reliable, make targeted improvements that reduce operational load, and help their capabilities evolve towards the wider Secure Build direction.</li><li>Make practical security trade-offs and use threat modelling to guide designs without blocking delivery.</li><li>Design for a clear developer experience, including workflows initiated or consumed by software agents.</li><li>Partner with Product, Security, Developer Experience, Registry and other platform teams on end-to-end customer workflows.</li><li>Participate in the team's paid on-call rotation and drive improvements from incidents and recurring operational work.</li><li>Communicate decisions, risks and progress clearly in a remote, async-first environment.</li></ul><h1>Qualifications</h1><h2>Required</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>6+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience</li><li>Strong backend engineering experience building and operating distributed systems in production.</li><li>Production experience with Go and the ability to write, test, review and debug maintainable Go services.</li><li>Experience with containers and build or CI systems, such as OCI, BuildKit, Buildx, GitHub Actions or comparable platforms.</li><li>Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and a major cloud platform.</li><li>A strong operational mindset covering observability, reliability, incident response and on-call ownership.</li><li>Evidence of taking a feature or service from an ambiguous problem through production operation and measurable results.</li><li>Working knowledge of security boundaries, identity, secrets and common software supply-chain risks.</li><li>A strong product mindset and care for developer workflows, including experiences used by software agents.</li><li>Clear written and spoken communication suited to a remote, async-first company.</li></ul><h2>Helpful, but not required</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience with Kubernetes.</li><li>Experience with SLSA, in-toto, SBOM, VEX, Sigstore, cosign, provenance or artefact signing.</li><li>Experience with sandboxing, microVMs, untrusted workload execution or multi-tenant infrastructure.</li><li>Experience building hosted CI runners, remote builders or developer-platform infrastructure.</li><li>Experience with agentic development workflows or building systems used programmatically by software agents.</li><li>Experience evolving a legacy production system while delivering new capabilities.</li></ul><h1>What to Expect</h1><h2>First 30 Days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build context on Docker Build Cloud, Auto Builds and the Secure Build product and technical direction.</li><li>Pair with the Secure Build team on core services, deployments and operational practices.</li><li>Ship a useful production change and take part in an operational review or incident-learning session.</li><li>Understand the secure-CI threat model and build relationships with DHI, Registry and Developer Experience.</li></ul><h2>First 90 Days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Own a secure-build feature or reliability improvement from problem definition through production.</li><li>Contribute materially to the secure-CI architecture, including isolation, identity, policy or signed evidence.</li><li>Deliver an observable improvement to the reliability or operability of an existing build service.</li><li>Demonstrate strong product judgement across developer and agent workflows.</li></ul><h2>One Year Outlook (First Year)</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Be a trusted senior technical owner on the Secure Build team.</li><li>Deliver a material secure-CI or trusted-build capability used by customers or internal product teams.</li><li>Improve the reliability and maintainability of Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds while helping their useful capabilities converge with the wider platform.</li><li>Contribute to the team's architecture for isolated execution, brokered access and verifiable build outcomes.</li><li>Help establish strong product, design, review and operational practices as the team grows.</li></ul>Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.<div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div>Compensation &amp; EquityEU: €94,040 – €155,650+ equityUnited States: $160,900 – $260,700 + equityPerks<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Freedom &amp; flexibility; fit your work around your life</li><li>Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break</li><li>Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work</li><li>16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)</li><li>Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month</li><li>PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy</li><li>Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes</li><li>Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company</li><li>Docker Swag</li><li>Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country</li><li>Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris</li></ul>Docker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.#LI-REMOTE

Senior Software Engineer, Secure Build

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.The Docker Sandboxes team is building the runtime that lets AI coding agents run safely on a developer's machine: disposable, isolated microVM sandboxes that each get their own Docker daemon, filesystem, and network. This is the core of Docker's sbx product: developers can give an agent the autonomy it needs to get real work done without it ever touching the host, and tear the whole environment down when it's finished.The successful candidate is a technical, product-minded engineer with deep experience building secure, isolated runtime environments (sandboxes, containers, or VMs) and a track record of shipping and owning that kind of infrastructure in production at scale. They think naturally about isolation and security boundaries, understand the tradeoffs involved in running untrusted or semi-trusted workloads safely, and can reason confidently about a system that spans multiple surface areas.They can drive clarity and consensus on hard, ambiguous problems that cross team and component boundaries, raise the bar for engineering quality wherever they work, thrive in a remote-first environment, communicate clearly across time zones, work with our users, while bringing curiosity and craftsmanship to hard problems.Please note: this role is currently prioritizing candidates currently located in the Eastern time zone (US or Canada), or in the EU. <h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design, develop, and lead improvements to the sandboxes product across agent integration, tool permissions, and developer-facing workflows.</li><li>Investigate and resolve correctness, performance, and stability issues in the agent integration layer across macOS, Windows, and Linux.</li><li>Drive the reliability and performance of sandbox creation, session management, and teardown for AI agent workloads.</li><li>Collaborate with peers, Product, and adjacent teams to evolve the architecture as requirements grow.</li><li>Mentor engineers on the team and set the bar in design reviews and code reviews.</li><li>Engage with the open source and agentic development community around sandboxing, MCP, and related ecosystems.</li><li>Participate in on-call rotations and respond to critical stability issues affecting users.</li><li>Document your work clearly and share knowledge with the rest of the team.</li></ul><h1>Qualifications</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience</li><li>Experience building developer tools, desktop applications, or runtime infrastructure used directly by developers.</li><li>Familiarity with the agentic software development ecosystem: how coding agents work and how tools like Claude Code, Codex, or similar agents interact with their environment.</li><li>Ability to reason about isolation and security boundaries: what a sandbox should and shouldn't expose, and how to make safe defaults obvious to users.</li><li>Experience driving architecture and technical strategy across multiple engineers or teams.</li><li>Strong written and verbal communication skills.</li><li>Comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy in a remote-first environment.</li></ul><h1>What to Expect</h1><h2>First 30 Days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build an understanding of our codebase.</li><li>Meet the people on your team and those adjacent to it.</li><li>Build an understanding of the products we are shipping and our near-term technical priorities.</li><li>Deliver small fixes or improvements.</li></ul><h2>First 90 Days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Lead the design and development of a significant improvement or feature of the local sandboxes stack.</li><li>Engage with our open source project and the relevant upstream communities.</li><li>Shape the team's technical direction, and drive architecture discussions.</li></ul><h2>One Year Outlook (First Year)</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Deliver measurable improvements to the correctness and performance of sandboxes.</li><li>Become a recognized technical owner of key parts of the codebase and a go-to technical leader for the local runtime.</li><li>Help us define the longer-term technical strategy for the filesystem layer in a way that fits with Product and Business goals, and rally the team behind it.</li></ul>Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.Compensation &amp; EquityEU: €94,040 – €155,650+ equityUnited States: $160,900 – $260,700 + equityPerks<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Freedom &amp; flexibility; fit your work around your life</li><li>Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break</li><li>Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work</li><li>16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)</li><li>Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month</li><li>PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy</li><li>Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes</li><li>Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company</li><li>Docker Swag</li><li>Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country</li><li>Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris</li></ul>Docker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.#LI-REMOTE

Senior Software Engineer, Sandboxes (EU or East Coast Preferred)

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.As a Staff Software Engineer in Networking, you will set the technical direction for the networking stack behind Docker's Sandboxes platform and make architectural decisions that ripple across Docker's product portfolio. Your work will directly enable Docker's expansion into AI and security products.This role calls for someone who:<ol style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Combines deep technical expertise in infrastructure at scale, virtual networking, service mesh, orchestration, and integration across the broader infrastructure stack;</li><li>Communicates and collaborates well, thinks critically, and turns ideas into working systems</li><li>Adapts to ambiguity and brings clarity</li><li>Provides technical leadership to a small team of engineers, driving customer delight through the solutions they deliver</li></ol><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design, implement, and operate core networking services that power Docker's Sandboxes platform across local laptops and public cloud environments</li><li>Build scalable networking infrastructure for microVM orchestration, workload scheduling, and lifecycle management</li><li>Develop high-performance networking data- and control-plane components for multi-tenant agentic workloads</li><li>Ensure network reliability, observability, and performance across Docker's Sandbox infrastructure</li><li>Collaborate with product, platform, and security teams to deliver customer-focused capabilities</li><li>Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, and design documents</li><li>Contribute to automation and CI/CD improvements across the deployment pipeline</li><li>Debug and resolve production issues across distributed systems in local and public-cloud environments</li><li>Take part in on-call rotation for your team; respond to incidents and drive continuous improvement of system reliability and availability</li></ul><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h1>Qualifications</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years of experience building and leading large-scale cloud or distributed systems, with a focus on networking foundations</li><li>Track record of driving technical consensus and delivering high-quality infrastructure software at scale, on tight timelines</li><li>Experience with microservices architecture, container networking, service mesh, policy enforcement, and container orchestration</li><li>Experience with kernel and user-space networking technologies, including Linux networking, OVS/OVN, DPDK, and eBPF</li><li>Experience designing and operating highly available, secure, and observable networking infrastructure</li><li>Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) and related scalability patterns</li><li>Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code tooling</li><li>Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed environments</li><li>Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across remote, cross-functional teams</li><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience</li></ul><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h1>What to Expect</h1><h2>First 30 days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Onboard, integrate with our Sandbox infrastructure teams, and build context on Docker's Sandbox vision</li><li>Deep-dive into Sandbox architecture for local and public-cloud infrastructure, with a focus on driving simple, common foundational primitives usable across both environments</li><li>Identify the highest-leverage opportunities in the current architecture, along with strategic and tactical execution risks</li></ul><h2>First 90 days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Develop a technical roadmap to address the challenges identified; drive consensus across stakeholders</li><li>Provide technical leadership to a small team of engineers to deliver on the roadmap</li><li>Establish or improve technical standards for development, deployment, operation, and observability of networking services</li></ul><h2>One-year outlook</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Drive simplification of foundational networking infrastructure across local and public-cloud environments</li><li>Establish repeatable engineering practices for quality, performance, and operational excellence</li><li>Nurture the team's confidence and capability by providing clarity, sustaining focus, and delivering pragmatically through successive iteration</li><li>Set a standard for what a small team of engineers can deliver and manage when given a charter, autonomy, and the tools they need</li></ul><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div>Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.<div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div>Compensation &amp; EquityUnited States: $170,350 – $275,550 + equityPerks<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Freedom &amp; flexibility; fit your work around your life</li><li>Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break</li><li>Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work</li><li>16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)</li><li>Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month</li><li>PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy</li><li>Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes</li><li>Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company</li><li>Docker Swag</li><li>Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country</li><li>Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris</li></ul>Docker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.#LI-REMOTE

Staff Software Engineer, Networking (Seattle or SF Bay Area)

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.As a Principal Software Engineer in Networking, you will set the technical direction for the networking stack behind Docker's Sandboxes platform and make architectural decisions that ripple across Docker's product portfolio. Your work will directly enable Docker's expansion into AI and security products.This role calls for someone who:<ol style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Combines deep technical expertise in infrastructure at scale, virtual networking, service mesh, orchestration, and integration across the broader infrastructure stack;</li><li>Communicates and collaborates well, thinks critically, and turns ideas into working systems</li><li>Adapts to ambiguity and brings clarity</li><li>Provides technical leadership to a small team of engineers, driving customer delight through the solutions they deliver</li></ol><h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design, implement, and operate core networking services that power Docker's Sandboxes platform across local laptops and public cloud environments</li><li>Build scalable networking infrastructure for microVM orchestration, workload scheduling, and lifecycle management</li><li>Develop high-performance networking data- and control-plane components for multi-tenant agentic workloads</li><li>Ensure network reliability, observability, and performance across Docker's Sandbox infrastructure</li><li>Collaborate with product, platform, and security teams to deliver customer-focused capabilities</li><li>Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, and design documents</li><li>Contribute to automation and CI/CD improvements across the deployment pipeline</li><li>Debug and resolve production issues across distributed systems in local and public-cloud environments</li><li>Take part in on-call rotation for your team; respond to incidents and drive continuous improvement of system reliability and availability</li></ul><h1>Qualifications</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>10+ years of experience building and leading large-scale cloud or distributed systems, with a focus on networking foundations</li><li>Track record of driving technical consensus and delivering high-quality infrastructure software at scale, on tight timelines</li><li>Experience with microservices architecture, container networking, service mesh, policy enforcement, and container orchestration</li><li>Experience with kernel and user-space networking technologies, including Linux networking, OVS/OVN, DPDK, and eBPF</li><li>Experience designing and operating highly available, secure, and observable networking infrastructure</li><li>Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) and related scalability patterns</li><li>Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code tooling</li><li>Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed environments</li><li>Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across remote, cross-functional teams</li><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience</li></ul><h1>What to Expect</h1><h2>First 30 days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Onboard, integrate with our Sandbox infrastructure teams, and build context on Docker's Sandbox vision</li><li>Deep-dive into Sandbox architecture for local and public-cloud infrastructure, with a focus on driving simple, common foundational primitives usable across both environments</li><li>Identify the highest-leverage opportunities in the current architecture, along with strategic and tactical execution risks</li></ul><h2>First 90 days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Develop a technical roadmap to address the challenges identified; drive consensus across stakeholders</li><li>Provide technical leadership to a small team of engineers to deliver on the roadmap</li><li>Establish or improve technical standards for development, deployment, operation, and observability of networking services</li></ul><h2>One-year outlook</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Drive simplification of foundational networking infrastructure across local and public-cloud environments</li><li>Establish repeatable engineering practices for quality, performance, and operational excellence</li><li>Nurture the team's confidence and capability by providing clarity, sustaining focus, and delivering pragmatically through successive iteration</li><li>Set a standard for what a small team of engineers can deliver and manage when given a charter, autonomy, and the tools they need</li></ul>Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.<div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div>Compensation &amp; EquityUnited States: $198K – $319K + equityPerks<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Freedom &amp; flexibility; fit your work around your life</li><li>Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break</li><li>Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work</li><li>16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)</li><li>Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month</li><li>PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy</li><li>Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes</li><li>Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company</li><li>Docker Swag</li><li>Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country</li><li>Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris</li></ul>Docker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.#LI-REMOTE

Principal Software Engineer, Networking (Seattle or SF Bay Area)

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.As a Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Sandboxes team, you’ll design and build the core systems that power Docker’s cloud agentic platform. Your work will focus on creating scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure that enables developers to deploy and manage agentic workloads efficiently and with confidence.If you thrive on solving distributed systems challenges, enjoy working at the intersection of developer experience and cloud infrastructure, and want to help shape the future of Docker’s platform, we’d love to hear from you.<h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design, implement, and operate core services that power Docker’s Cloud Sandboxes platform</li><li>Build scalable systems for microVM orchestration, workload scheduling, and lifecycle management</li><li>Develop high-performance APIs and control plane components for managing multi-tenant workloads</li><li>Ensure system reliability, observability, and performance across Docker’s Cloud Sandbox infrastructure</li><li>Collaborate with product, platform, and security teams to deliver customer-focused capabilities</li><li>Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, and design documents</li><li>Contribute to automation and CI/CD improvements across the deployment pipeline</li><li>Debug and resolve production issues across distributed systems in cloud environments</li><li>Take part in on-call rotation for your team; respond to incidents, debug production issues, and drive continuous improvement of system reliability</li></ul><h1>Qualifications</h1><h2>Required:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>10+ years of backend software engineering experience building large-scale cloud or distributed systems</li><li>Strong proficiency in Go and/or Java</li><li>Deep understanding of container orchestration, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture</li><li>Experience designing and operating highly available, secure, and observable production systems</li><li>Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and related scalability patterns</li><li>Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code tooling</li><li>Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed environments</li><li>Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across remote, cross-functional teams</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.</li></ul><h2>Preferred:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience contributing to cloud-scale compute platforms or container infrastructure products</li><li>Knowledge of service mesh, networking, or policy enforcement systems</li><li>Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, etc.)</li><li>Familiarity with security best practices for multi-tenant cloud systems</li><li>Prior experience in developer infrastructure, cloud platforms, or hyperscale environments</li></ul>Docker considers sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.Perks<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Freedom &amp; flexibility; fit your work around your life</li><li>Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break</li><li>Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work</li><li>16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)</li><li>Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month</li><li>PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy</li><li>Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes</li><li>Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company</li><li>Docker Swag</li><li>Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country</li><li>Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris</li></ul>Docker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.#LI-REMOTE

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Sandboxes (West Coast)

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.Docker seeks a Principal Software Engineer to define the technical vision and architecture for our internal Developer Tools team. This is a rare opportunity to establish how software is designed, built, shipped, and operated at Docker. With the addition of AI we are modernizing our SDLC and building the mechanisms that make the right way the easy way for every engineer.You'll own the technical strategy across four interconnected pillars:Platform Engineering &amp; Self-Service: Design and build the internal developer platform that empowers teams across Docker to unblock themselves, rapidly scaffolding, prototyping, deploying, and operating their own services and tools.CI/CD &amp; Build Systems: Define Docker's technical approach to continuous integration, delivery, and build infrastructure. Establish architectural standards for pipeline tooling, GitOps deployment patterns, build substrate, and release engineering.As Principal Software Engineer, you'll partner with engineering leadership across Docker, principal engineers, Security, Infrastructure, and the service teams to author the SDLC tenets that underpin all of this work, and build the mechanisms those tenets run through.Reporting to the Sr Manager of Developer Tools, you'll collaborate closely with engineering leadership across Docker, product engineering teams, platform teams, and ultimately customers as internal tools evolve into product offerings.<h1>What Would Make Someone Successful in This Role</h1>You're a technical leader who excels at the intersection of developer experience, platform engineering, and systems design. You think in platforms and golden paths, building once and enabling dozens of teams to move faster. You have strong opinions on what makes developer tools great: invisible by default, indispensable once adopted, and measurable in the workflows engineers already use.You have deep experience across the breadth of the developer tooling stack, CI/CD, build systems, observability infrastructure, and developer platforms, and working knowledge of LLM integration and AI agent development. You understand the nuances of internal platforms: designing for adoption, not mandate; plugging into existing workflows before standing up new ones; and earning trust through data before expanding scope.You have exceptional judgment on when to build custom solutions versus integrate existing tools, and you're comfortable navigating a rapidly evolving landscape across both AI and developer infrastructure. You balance technical excellence with pragmatism, shipping iteratively while maintaining high quality bars. Most importantly, you lead through influence and mentorship, elevating the entire engineering organization's technical capabilities.<h1>Responsibilities</h1>Technical Leadership &amp; Architecture<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Define the long-term technical vision and architecture for Docker's developer tooling platform spanning platform engineering, CI/CD, and AI-powered tools</li><li>Lead authoring of SDLC tenets in partnership with other principal engineers, Security, and Infrastructure and build the mechanisms those tenets bind to (design gates, code review gates, pipeline standards, visibility)</li><li>Establish architectural patterns, technical standards, and best practices across the developer tooling stack</li><li>Design highly available, scalable infrastructure for hosting developer tools, agents, and platform services</li><li>Drive technical decisions on tooling choices, provider strategies, build/deploy substrate, and agent orchestration frameworks</li><li>Partner with Senior Manager and product leadership to align technical architecture with business objectives and productization opportunities</li></ul>Systems Design &amp; Implementation<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Architect and build Docker's internal developer platform, the self-service substrate enabling teams to scaffold, deploy, and operate services with minimal friction</li><li>Design and implement CI/CD and build infrastructure that supports Docker's SDLC tenets and GitOps deployment patterns</li><li>Establish reliability, security, and performance standards across developer tooling including SLOs, monitoring, incident response, and cost management</li><li>Design integration points between developer tools and existing infrastructure (CI/CD pipelines, observability platforms, deployment systems)</li></ul>Strategic Impact &amp; Innovation<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Evaluate emerging technologies across developer tooling, platform engineering, AI/LLM, and agent frameworks to inform Docker's technical strategy</li><li>Define and enforce the golden path, the concrete, left-to-right walkthrough of how Docker builds software, and identify where tooling closes gaps vs. where human process does</li><li>Drive technical standards for measuring developer tool effectiveness: adoption metrics, productivity gains, pipeline performance, and developer satisfaction</li><li>Lead cross-functional technical discussions influencing company-wide developer tooling architecture</li><li>Define technical approach for productizing successful internal developer tools into customer-facing offerings</li></ul>Leadership &amp; Mentorship<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Mentor senior and staff engineers on platform engineering, CI/CD patterns, design, and AI/LLM integration</li><li>Lead design reviews and technical decision-making across all developer tooling work</li><li>Foster culture of technical excellence, experimentation, and rapid prototyping within the Developer Tools team</li><li>Serve as primary technical contact and thought leader for developer tooling across Docker's engineering organization</li><li>Collaborate with platform teams (Infrastructure, Security, Agentic Platform, Supply Chain Security) to establish shared technical standards and integration patterns</li><li>This role may require participation in an on-call rotation to provide support outside of standard business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, as needed.</li></ul><h1>Qualifications</h1><h2>Required:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>10+ years software engineering experience with 3+ years in Staff or Principal Engineer roles</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.</li><li>Proven track record architecting and operating developer-facing platforms, internal tools, or developer productivity systems at scale</li><li>Deep expertise in CI/CD systems, build infrastructure, and GitOps deployment patterns</li><li>Production experience with cloud-native infrastructure including Kubernetes, observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki), and deployment tooling</li><li>Experience designing self-service platforms, developer portals, or golden path tooling that enable other teams to move faster</li><li>Working knowledge of AI/ML technologies and hands-on experience with LLM APIs or AI agent development</li><li>Proficiency in Go (preferred), Rust, Java, or Python with strong software engineering fundamentals</li><li>Exceptional product and platform mindset considering developer experience, business outcomes, and technical/security trade-offs</li><li>Strong communication skills with ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders</li><li>Track record of technical mentorship and elevating engineering teams' capabilities</li><li>Ownership mentality with bias for action and iterative delivery in ambiguous, fast-moving environments</li><li>Comfortable with autonomous work in distributed, remote-first teams across multiple time zones</li></ul><h2>Preferred:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar AI agent integration standards</li><li>Background in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering domains</li><li>Contributions to open source developer tooling, platform engineering, or observability projects</li><li>Experience productizing internal platforms into commercial offerings</li><li>Deep knowledge of security, compliance, and operational best practices for production systems</li><li>Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks (Terraform, Pulumi) and multi-cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)</li><li>Track record driving org-wide adoption of developer tooling and engineering standards</li></ul><h1>What to Expect</h1><h2>First 30 Days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Understand Docker's current developer tooling landscape: AI tools, CI/CD state, platform engineering gaps, and the foundational SDLC gap</li><li>Meet with engineering leadership, principal engineers, and key technical stakeholders across product engineering, Security, Infrastructure, and Agentic Platform</li><li>Conduct deep technical assessment of current developer tooling infrastructure to identify opportunities and constraints across all four pillars</li><li>Review existing tools in production and understand what's working, what isn't, and the technical lessons learned</li><li>Partner with Senior Manager to define initial technical priorities and 90-day technical roadmap across pillars</li></ul><h2>First 90 Days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Define and document technical architecture for the Developer Tools platform across: system design, technology choices, integration patterns, and operational model</li><li>Ship first production deliverable, either an extension of existing tooling or a net-new tool with architectural patterns and standards that scale to future work</li><li>Establish technical foundations for the self-service platform: deployment pipeline, security controls, and cost management</li><li>Lead or contribute to the SDLC tenets working session with principal engineers, Security, and Infrastructure</li><li>Define success metrics and instrumentation strategy for measuring developer tool adoption, effectiveness, and productivity impact</li><li>Create architectural decision records and best practices guides for teams building on the platform</li></ul><h2>First Year Outlook</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Establish mature technical architecture for the Developer Tools platform with multiple production tools demonstrating value</li><li>Build production-ready self-service platform enabling multiple teams to build, deploy, and operate their own tools with minimal friction</li><li>Define and implement technical standards for measuring developer productivity improvement: design quality, commit frequency, PR velocity, deployment reliability, and incident response times</li><li>Lead technical strategy for productizing successful internal tools into customer-facing offerings</li><li>Position Developer Tools as Docker's technical center of excellence for developer productivity, with regular technical talks, demos, and knowledge sharing</li><li>Define multi-year technical roadmap including advanced platform capabilities, expanded AI tooling, and emerging technology adoption</li></ul>Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.Perks<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Freedom &amp; flexibility; fit your work around your life</li><li>Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break</li><li>Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work</li><li>16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)</li><li>Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month</li><li>PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy</li><li>Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes</li><li>Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company</li><li>Docker Swag</li><li>Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country</li><li>Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris</li></ul>Docker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.#LI-REMOTE

Principal Software Engineer, Developer Tools (US West Coast)

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.Docker is shipping a wave of new products this year, with R&amp;D initiatives likely to lead to more, and we're investing heavily in the platform underneath all of it. That platform supports hundreds of engineers across many development teams and carries high-scale production traffic and data transfer every day. It has grown faster than its foundations, and this year is about closing that gap.Today, much of that work still leans on a handful of experts unblocking the same provisioning and operational workflows by hand. The top priority for this role is moving that work from expert-driven support to paved roads: self-service systems with clear ownership, safe defaults, strong guardrails, and adoption we can measure. The goal is a platform teams trust enough to stop thinking about it, one that just works, so they can focus on their own products instead of ours.The concrete version sits on this year's roadmap: spinning up a new global region or application environment should take hours, not days. Right now it takes days. Getting there means building the foundations underneath it. We need a real multi-region, cross-account network architecture and a testing and continuous-deployment flow teams can trust, then a self-service layer on top.We're the container company building our own internal platform, so the bar for "the easy path is also the safe path" is high. You'd be joining a team of four, growing to seven this year (this is one of those hires), and we're looking for a Staff engineer to set technical direction and lead it through real production adoption.<h1>Responsibilities </h1>This is a Staff-level role, so success is measured by leverage rather than just your own commits. On a team this size you'll stay hands-on in the codebase while also setting direction, aligning teams on pragmatic standards, and carrying platform investments through to adoption. Concretely, you will:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Take ambiguous infrastructure problems and turn them into proposals the org can rally around, then drive them through RFCs and architecture reviews across teams.</li><li>Design self-service capabilities and platform APIs (primarily in Go) for onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations, with contracts and docs teams actually use.</li><li>Set delivery standards using Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, progressive rollout, and good testing, including building the continuous-deployment flow we're missing today.</li><li>Evolve the multi-tenant EKS foundations toward better reliability, security, scale, and cost: Envoy Gateway ingress, traffic routing, and the multi-region, cross-account connectivity we need.</li><li>Improve SLOs, alerting, and incident follow-up on Grafana Cloud so production gets safer and less dependent on heroics.</li></ul>We judge this work by outcomes the consuming teams feel: how fast they can provision and ship, how much they can do without us, and how reliably it all runs.<h2>AI-assisted operations</h2>We're actively investing in AI-assisted and agentic workflows to cut operational toil. We care that they stay safe, auditable, and human-reviewed. You'll help shape where these earn their place and where they don't. Early targets include:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Alert enrichment and incident context-gathering: assembling the relevant signals, history, and runbook so the on-call engineer starts with context instead of a blank page.</li><li>Runbook-assisted diagnosis and remediation recommendations, with a human in the loop on anything that changes production.</li><li>Onboarding and readiness assistants that answer the questions our experts answer today.</li></ul>If you've built operational automation and have a healthy skepticism about where automation belongs, this is a place to put both to work.On-callOperational ownership is part of the job. You'll join the rotation after onboarding and shadowing. As a Staff engineer, you'll also improve the health of on-call itself, with better alerts, stronger runbooks, less toil, and blameless postmortems aimed at prevention.<h1>Qualifications</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.</li><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience</li><li>Strong software engineering in Go or a similar language: design, testing, debugging, review, long-term maintainability.</li><li>A track record designing, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure platforms in production. We hire for skill and impact, not years.</li><li>Deep expertise in at least one of: Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms, plus solid Linux, networking, and production-ops fundamentals.</li><li>Experience setting technical direction and leading work that needs cross-team alignment.</li><li>Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment (RFCs, design docs, incident writeups).</li></ul>Nice to have: EKS and ingress/CNI/service-mesh experience; observability with OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana; CI/CD and progressive delivery (GitHub Actions, Argo CD, canaries); experience leading migrations or adoption programs across teams.You don't need every item here. We value deep expertise in one area, strong systems judgment, and curiosity across the rest.<h2></h2><h1>What to Expect</h1><h2>First 30 days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build context, meet partner teams, ship your first change, shadow on-call.</li></ul><h2>First 90 days</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Own a strategic platform problem with a clear plan and metrics; lead an improvement from design to production.</li></ul><h2>One Year Outlook</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Lead a major cross-team initiative (for example, self-service provisioning of new regions and environments, or the multi-region networking and CD foundations behind it) and establish durable patterns that change how Docker engineers build and operate services.</li></ul>Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://getcovey.com/product/covey-scout-inbound">Covey Scout for Inbound</a> on April 13, 2024.Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://getcovey.com/nyc-local-law-144">here</a>.Perks<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Freedom &amp; flexibility; fit your work around your life</li><li>Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break</li><li>Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work</li><li>16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)</li><li>Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month</li><li>PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy</li><li>Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes</li><li>Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company</li><li>Docker Swag</li><li>Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country</li><li>Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris</li></ul>Docker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.#LI-REMOTE

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