Docker

Senior Software Engineer, Tooling

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7 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$161k - $261k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a framework for creating and deploying internal applications and services with authentication, hosting, CI/CD, logging, observability, and alerting defaults.
  • Create templates, documentation, and examples that help teams build internal tools efficiently.
  • Set standards for how internal applications are built, secured, and operated.
  • Identify gaps in tools, processes, and systems and deliver internal applications and tooling to address them.
  • Evaluate build, buy, and integration options and connect internal tools with identity systems, data sources, Slack, and third-party products.
  • Own tools from scoping through rollout, adoption, ongoing support, and improvement.
  • Build operational defaults for incident management, SLOs, and alerting, and use AI tooling to accelerate delivery and automate workflows.
  • Partner with platform leads, engineering teams, HR, Finance, Marketing, Customer Support, and other business stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping internal tools or full-stack web applications.
  • Strong full-stack skills using a backend language such as Go, Python, or TypeScript and a modern frontend framework.
  • Experience designing reusable frameworks, templates, or platforms for other engineers.
  • Experience deploying cloud applications with containers and CI/CD and working knowledge of Kubernetes.
  • Experience integrating third-party SaaS products and APIs and making build, buy, and integrate decisions.
  • Experience working directly with non-engineering stakeholders to turn needs into working tools.
  • Experience with AI-assisted development or LLM-powered automation.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Clear written communication and comfort working asynchronously on a remote team.
  • Preferred experience includes program management, internal tool or developer portal platforms, web design, observability and incident tooling, developer tooling or SaaS companies at scale, and compliance and security standards familiarity.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work from home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for collaboration.
  • Flexible scheduling and generous PTO, quarterly Whaleness Days, and an end-of-year Whaleness break.
  • Home office support and a technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net per month.
  • Annual learning and development stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
  • Equity for all full-time employees.
  • Medical, retirement, paid holidays, and other comprehensive benefits that vary by country.
  • Docker swag.
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About Docker

1,001-5,000 employees

Docker builds developer tools for building, sharing, and running containerized applications, including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, Docker Scout, and the open-source Docker Engine. It monetizes through paid subscriptions for individuals, teams, and enterprises, along with security offerings such as Docker Hardened Images. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company serves over 20 million monthly users and supports more than 20 billion container image pulls.

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