Staff Software Engineer

Who you are

• You have built and operated a cloud control and management plane. Software that provisions, upgrades, and watches infrastructure for many tenants or environments, in production, with a pager. Experience at a cloud provider, a managed-service vendor, or a platform team that stamps out environments
• Kubernetes beyond deployment. You have written controllers or operators, understand reconciliation and CRDs, and know why declarative beats imperative at fleet scale
• Deep in at least one major cloud. Hands-on with compute, networking, identity, and managed services, and able to pick up a second cloud fast
• Production ownership. On-call, incident response, SLOs, post-mortems. You run what you build
• Distributed systems design. Fault tolerance, consistency, observability, idempotent reconciliation
• Go. Professional proficiency. Docker's backend and all of this team's code is Go
• 10+ years of professional software engineering in infrastructure, platform, or cloud services, with the judgment to set direction for others
• Kubernetes resource orchestration and cloud controllers, such as KRO
• Release engineering and software supply chain: OCI registries, digests, license compliance
• Private connectivity between cloud accounts: PrivateLink, VPC peering, service endpoints, egress policy
• OpenTelemetry pipelines with multiple destinations
• Building managed services
• Firecracker, microVMs, or other isolated execution environments for untrusted code
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

What the job involves

• Design and build the systems that deploy, release, and operate Docker's agentic platform for enterprise customers, in Go and on Kubernetes
• Make the platform run consistently across cloud providers and environments, with the security, identity, and network boundaries enterprises require
• Own the release and supply chain path so every deployment is reproducible, verifiable, and trusted
• Run what you build: production ownership, on-call, SLOs, incident response, and the operational tooling that keeps it boring
• Set technical direction with the team's architect and engineering leadership, and work with partner teams across runtime, developer experience, identity, and observability
• Raise the bar through design review, testing discipline, and mentorship as the team grows

The application process

• AI in hiring: Docker may use AI-assisted tools during our recruiting process
• Interview recordings: Candidates will be invited to opt in to interview recordings to support interviewer calibration and consistent evaluations. Recordings are optional and require explicit consent

Benefits

• 100% company paid medical premiums for employees and dependents
• Flexible Time Off Policy
• Employer Paid Holidays
• Generous Parental Leave (after 6 months of employment)
• Home Office Set Up Budget
• Monthly Technology Stipend
• Training Allowances
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Retirement Plans
• Virtual and In-Person Social Events
• Docker Swag
• Quarterly Hackathons