Docker, Inc

Staff Software Engineer, Docker AI Substrate (Seattle or Palo Alto)

Palo Alto, CA or Seattle, WA · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$170k-$276kDetected 16 days ago

Distributed SystemsDockerKubernetesAgentic AIIncident ResponseSupply ChainLeadershipMentoring

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Lottery odds (Level IV)94

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About the role

ABOUT DOCKER Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls.
Docker's answer is to give every agent a strong boundary, make its environment and authority reproducible, and let the work run where it makes sense, from a developer's laptop to the cloud.
The Docker AI Substrate team brings that foundation to the enterprise: the largest companies in the world, running agents at scale, with the security, reliability, and control they expect from any critical system.

Responsibilities

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.
As a Staff Software Engineer here, you will shape the architecture, build the core systems, and run what you build.
Flexibility that fits your life - We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering great work.
We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
We believe diverse teams build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our global community.

Requirements

You have built and operated a cloud control and management plane.
Experience at a cloud provider, a managed-service vendor, or a platform team that stamps out environments.
You have written controllers or operators, understand reconciliation and CRDs, and know why declarative beats imperative at fleet scale.
Professional proficiency.
10+ years of professional software engineering in infrastructure, platform, or cloud services, with the judgment to set direction for others.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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.
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.

Skills

As agents take on bigger jobs, the infrastructure around them matters more.

Compensation

Compensation & Equity

Benefits

Time to recharge - Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break.
Home office support - Set up your workspace for comfort and success.
Technology stipend - Equivalent to US$100 net per month to help support your work.
Learning & development - Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning.
Parental leave - 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
Equity for all full-time employees - Share in Docker's long-term success as we continue to grow.
Comprehensive benefits - Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country.

Company info

We are a small, senior team at the start of that work.
Design and build the systems that deploy, release, and operate Docker's agentic platform for enterprise customers, in Go and on Kubernetes.

Equal opportunity

equal opportunity employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

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