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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.\nWe 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.\n_______________________________________________________________________\nDocker is shipping a wave of new products this year, and we’re investing heavily in the platform underneath all of it. That platform supports hundreds of engineers and carries high-scale production traffic every day - and it has grown faster than its foundations. 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We’re looking for a senior engineer who can own significant parts of this platform end to end, drive projects to real production adoption, and raise how the whole team builds.\nResponsibilities\nThis is a senior, deeply hands-on role. You’ll own significant components, drive projects from design through production adoption, and shape the platform’s technical direction while helping teammates grow. Concretely, you will:\nTurn ambiguous infrastructure problems into clear designs and working systems - contributing to RFCs and architecture reviews, and driving your projects to done.\n\nBuild 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.\n\nApply and help shape delivery standards with Terraform, GitOps on Argo CD, progressive rollout, and strong testing - including the continuous-deployment flow we’re missing today.\n\nStrengthen the multi-tenant EKS foundations for reliability, security, scale, and cost: Envoy Gateway ingress, traffic routing, and multi-region, cross-account connectivity.\n\nImprove SLOs, alerting, and incident follow-up on Grafana Cloud so production gets safer and less dependent on heroics.\n\nWe measure 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.\nAI-assisted operations\nWe’re investing in AI-assisted and agentic workflows to cut operational toil, and we care that they stay safe, auditable, and human-reviewed. You’ll help shape where they earn their place and where they don’t. Early targets:\nAlert 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.\n\nRunbook-assisted diagnosis and remediation recommendations, with a human in the loop on anything that changes production.\n\nOnboarding and readiness assistants that answer the questions our experts answer today.\n\nIf you’ve built operational automation and have a healthy skepticism about where automation belongs, this is a place to put both to work.\nOn-call\nOperational ownership is part of the job. You’ll join the rotation after onboarding and shadowing, and help improve on-call itself: better alerts, stronger runbooks, less toil, and blameless postmortems aimed at prevention.\nQualifications\n6+ years of hands-on software engineering in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering, though we weight real depth and impact more heavily than exact tenure.\n\nStrong software engineering in Go or a similar language: design, testing, debugging, review, and long-term maintainability.\n\nA track record of building, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure in production.\n\nDeep expertise in at least one of Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms - plus solid Linux and production-ops fundamentals.\n\nExperience shaping technical direction and working effectively across teams.\n\nClear written and verbal communication in a remote environment (RFCs, design docs, incident writeups).\n\nBachelor’s in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.\n\nNice to have: EKS and ingress/CNI/service-mesh experience; observability with OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana; CI/CD and progressive delivery (GitHub Actions, Argo CD, canaries); driving migrations or adoption programs across teams.\nYou don’t need every item here. We value strong systems judgment, real depth in at least one area, and curiosity across the rest.\nWhat to Expect\nFirst 30 days\nBuild context, meet partner teams, ship your first change, and shadow on-call.\n\nFirst 90 days\nOwn a meaningful platform component or project with a clear plan and metrics, and take an improvement from design to production.\n\nOne-year outlook\nOwn a significant part of the platform and become a go-to for it - contributing to 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 establishing durable patterns your team relies on.\n\nDocker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.\nCompensation & Equity\nUnited States: $160,900 - $260,700 + equity\n______________________________________________________________________\nPosting Information\nOpen vacancy: This posting is for an existing open role.\n\nAI in hiring: Docker may use AI-assisted tools during our recruiting process.\n\nInterview 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.\n\n______________________________________________________________________\nPerks & Benefits\nRemote-first by design - Work from your home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.\n\nFlexibility that fits your life - We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering great work.\n\nTime to recharge - Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break.\n\nHome office support - Set up your workspace for comfort and success.\n\nTechnology stipend - Equivalent to US$100 net per month to help support your work.\n\nLearning & development - Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning.\n\nParental leave - 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.\n\nEquity for all full-time employees - Share in Docker's long-term success as we continue to grow.\n\nComprehensive benefits - Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country.\n\nDocker swag - Because representing the whale never gets old.\n\nDocker is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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