17 hours ago
Palo Alto, CA, USA or Seattle, WA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$170k - $276k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build systems that deploy, release, and operate Docker’s enterprise agentic platform using Go and Kubernetes.
- Ensure consistent platform operation across cloud providers and environments with enterprise security, identity, and network boundaries.
- Own the release and software supply chain path so deployments are reproducible, verifiable, and trusted.
- Operate production systems through on-call, SLOs, incident response, and operational tooling.
- Set technical direction with architecture and engineering leadership and collaborate with runtime, developer experience, identity, and observability teams.
- Contribute to design reviews, testing discipline, mentorship, and team growth.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience in infrastructure, platform, or cloud services.
- Experience building and operating production cloud control and management planes for multiple tenants or environments.
- Hands-on Kubernetes expertise beyond deployment, including controllers, operators, reconciliation, and CRDs.
- Deep hands-on experience with at least one major cloud covering compute, networking, identity, and managed services.
- Production ownership experience including on-call, incident response, SLOs, and post-mortems.
- Experience designing distributed systems with fault tolerance, consistency, observability, and idempotent reconciliation.
- Professional proficiency in Go.
- Strongly preferred: Kubernetes resource orchestration and cloud controllers such as KRO.
- Strongly preferred: release engineering and software supply chain experience involving OCI registries, digests, and license compliance.
- Strongly preferred: private connectivity between cloud accounts, including PrivateLink, VPC peering, service endpoints, and egress policy.
- Strongly preferred: OpenTelemetry pipelines with multiple destinations, managed services, or isolated execution environments such as Firecracker and microVMs.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with home-office support and offices in Seattle and Paris.
- Flexible scheduling and generous PTO, quarterly Whaleness Days, and an end-of-year Whaleness break.
- 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, retirement, medical coverage, and paid holidays varying by country.
- Docker swag.
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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.