9 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$181k - $292k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture for Docker Hardened Images as a platform, including how images and Helm charts are authored, secured, distributed, and evolved.
- Define and drive multi-quarter technical roadmaps for container hardening while balancing upstream velocity, supply chain security, compliance, and catalogue scalability.
- Translate customer, operational, and upstream signals into architectural changes spanning the catalogue.
- Align engineering, product, security, infrastructure, customer-facing teams, and executives on technical strategy and tradeoffs.
- Represent Docker in enterprise customer engagements, escalations, and upstream open-source communities.
- Set organization-wide conventions for image definitions, Helm chart adaptation, hardening strategy, and supply chain tooling.
- Solve complex packaging problems involving upstream dynamics, security tradeoffs, multi-architecture constraints, and customer impact.
- Shape integration test infrastructure and developer tooling strategy.
- Mentor staff and senior engineers through reviews, design, and architectural leadership.
- Participate in the paid on-call rotation, respond to incidents, debug production issues, and improve reliability.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including extensive production-grade distributed systems experience at scale.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience setting multi-quarter technical roadmaps and aligning engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
- Deep expertise in the container and Kubernetes ecosystem, including cert-manager, Kyverno, Grafana, and Istio.
- Mastery of container supply chain security concepts including provenance, attestation, SBOM, signing, and SLSA.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in code review, testing, source control, CI/CD, and Go.
- Track record of influencing multiple teams or organizations through design documents, standards, reviews, and mentorship.
- Experience navigating upstream open-source communities and shaping security-relevant upstream direction.
- Ability to communicate complex technical strategy across remote, distributed teams and to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred experience includes Linux distribution or Homebrew package maintenance, organization-scale supply chain tooling, regulated environments such as FedRAMP, FIPS, or PCI, prior Principal or Distinguished IC work, and enterprise container security architecture engagements.
Benefits
- Remote-first work from home with offices in Seattle and Paris.
- Flexible scheduling, 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 country-dependent benefits, retirement benefits, medical coverage, paid holidays, and Docker swag.
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.