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

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2 months ago
Seattle, WA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$170k - $276k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and operate core networking services for Docker's Sandboxes platform across local laptops and public cloud environments
  • Build scalable networking infrastructure for microVM orchestration, workload scheduling, and lifecycle management
  • Develop high-performance networking data- and control-plane components for multi-tenant agentic workloads
  • Ensure reliability, observability, and performance across Sandbox infrastructure
  • Collaborate with product, platform, and security teams to deliver customer-focused capabilities
  • Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, and design documentation
  • Contribute to automation and CI/CD improvements across the deployment pipeline
  • Debug and resolve production issues across distributed local and public-cloud environments
  • Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and improve system reliability and availability
  • Set technical direction, create roadmaps, drive consensus, and provide technical leadership to a small engineering team

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and leading large-scale cloud or distributed systems focused on networking foundations
  • Track record of driving technical consensus and delivering high-quality infrastructure software at scale
  • Experience with microservices architecture, container networking, service mesh, policy enforcement, and container orchestration
  • Experience with Linux networking, OVS/OVN, DPDK, and eBPF
  • Experience designing and operating highly available, secure, and observable networking infrastructure
  • Strong understanding of AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and related scalability patterns
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed environments
  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

  • Remote-first culture with offices in Seattle and Paris
  • Flexible work arrangement
  • Quarterly Whaleness Days and end-of-year Whaleness break
  • Home office setup
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave after 6 months of employment
  • Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
  • PTO plan
  • Training stipend for conferences, courses, and classes
  • Equity participation
  • Medical benefits, retirement, and holidays varying by country
  • Visa sponsorship considered case by case
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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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