17 days ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$198k - $319k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed with customer engineering teams to design, build, and ship solutions from prototypes through stable production rollout.
- Build custom MCP servers, Docker Sandbox environments, Docker Compose definitions, hardened image migrations, and tools that unblock customer progress.
- Integrate Docker’s AI platform with identity providers, secrets management, private and air-gapped registries, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
- Own technical delivery by scoping work, sequencing execution, making trade-offs, removing blockers, and contributing directly to code.
- Translate customer security, compliance, platform, data sovereignty, and user experience requirements into production plans and controls for agentic AI.
- Establish quality and performance standards and partner with security and platform teams on architecture review, threat modeling, and change control.
- Support Solutions Architecture and the field during proofs of concept, escalations, and expansion conversations.
- Feed implementation learnings into reference architectures, SOW templates, success patterns, products, and services.
- Provide actionable customer feedback to Product and Engineering and influence the roadmap.
- Define the FDE engagement model, delivery standards, and quality bar; mentor and lead other FDEs; participate in hiring loops; and serve as a senior technical escalation point.
- Maintain current knowledge of LLMs, APIs, MCP, coding agents, evaluation approaches, and deployment patterns.
- Participate in an on-call rotation outside standard business hours as needed.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in a customer-facing technical role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Professional Services Engineer, or consulting-oriented Software Engineer.
- Technical leadership across multiple engagements, teams, or domains, including setting delivery standards, defining repeatable patterns, and influencing product direction.
- Expert production coding skills in Go, Python, or TypeScript, with experience shipping and operating dependable software and leading technical design reviews.
- Deep hands-on Docker expertise covering Dockerfiles, multi-stage builds, Docker Compose, image and registry operations, container networking and storage, and container security fundamentals.
- Production experience building with LLMs and agents, including tool use, function calling, MCP server and client implementation, prompt and context engineering, and agent evaluation.
- Working knowledge of software supply chain security, including SBOMs, image signing and attestation, vulnerability management, hardened base images, and secure CI/CD.
- Experience integrating enterprise systems including Okta, Entra ID, LDAP/Active Directory, OIDC, SAML, secrets managers, Kubernetes, and at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Ability to scope and deliver complex work in ambiguous customer environments while balancing scope, speed, and quality.
- Strong communication skills with engineers, security and platform teams, and executive stakeholders, plus the ability to lead through influence.
- Proven technical mentorship experience and a track record of raising engineering standards.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Willingness to travel to customer sites, estimated at up to 50%.
- Bonus qualifications include experience with Docker Hardened Images, Docker Scout, MCP Gateway, MCP Toolkit, Docker Sandboxes, Docker Model Runner, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, air-gapped or regulated environments, open source contributions, or founding/scaling an FDE or Professional Services practice.
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.
- Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
- Equity for all full-time employees, comprehensive benefits that vary by country, paid holidays, retirement benefits, medical coverage, and Docker swag.
- Travel to customer sites may be required up to an estimated 50%, and the role may include evening, weekend, and holiday on-call support.
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Docker
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.