Docker, Inc

Docker, Inc

Manager, Engineering, Secure Build

Canada · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 40 days ago
Code ReviewDockerCI/CDAgentic AIIncident ResponseSupply ChainCadenceLeadershipCommunicationMicrosoft Office

About the role

  • 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.
  • As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of senior engineers operating Docker Build Cloud and Hub's build systems and building Docker's next generation of secure build infrastructure.
  • Get the team's process and mechanics right, and partner closely with Product to turn strategy into a roadmap the team believes in.
  • Stay deep in the technical work: active in design discussions and code review, hands-on in the code where it helps, rather than steering from a distance.
  • This role may require participation in an on-call rotation to provide support outside of standard business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, as needed.
  • Own the growth, development, and performance of each engineer on the team, and hire to strengthen it.
  • A strong interest in security: how recent attacks have actually worked, the OWASP Top 10, and the build threat model.
  • Build relationships with each engineer, understand the roadmap and what the team is building, and get hands-on enough with Build Cloud and the inherited systems to understand the on-call load you're taking on.
  • Own the delivery plan with the team and Product.
  • We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience operating production infrastructure: on-call, incident response, SLOs, and the realities of keeping high-traffic services healthy.
  • 5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, including engineers at or above their own level of technical seniority, with a track record of growing and retaining senior individual contributors.
  • A leader first: strong on team process and mechanics, on partnering with Product, and on reading and navigating the personalities on and around a team to make it more than the sum of its parts.
  • Comfortable inheriting a team they didn't build: earning the trust of experienced engineers, and owning the full range of performance conversations, including the difficult ones, fairly and directly.
  • Technically deep and still hands-on: recent enough engineering chops to be active in design and code review, be a real part of setting technical direction with the team, and write code where it helps. Not the best engineer in the room or the deepest domain expert, but not a manager who's left the technical detail behind either.
  • A strong interest in security: how recent attacks have actually worked, the OWASP Top 10, and the build threat model. Familiarity with software supply chain security (SLSA, in-toto, provenance, signing such as cosign, SBOMs, vulnerability scanning) is valued, but we care more about security instinct and appetite than a checklist of tools.
  • Understanding of CI/CD and build-system internals, container images and image hardening, and OCI registry mechanics.
  • Comfortable leading a distributed, remote-first team across European and US time zones, with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, and a habit of staying close to customers.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on familiarity with Go is a plus
  • it's the team's primary language.

Skills

  • It's a small, very senior group that recently came together, with strong technical leadership spread across it.

Compensation

  • Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month

Benefits

  • Home office setup
  • 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
  • Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
  • PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
  • Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
  • Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
  • Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company

Company info

  • Own delivery: turn an ambiguous, high-stakes roadmap, including time-bound commitments to regulated and federal customers, into a concrete plan the team can execute predictably.
  • Be a real part of setting the team's technical direction, working with the engineers who lead on different parts of the system, while giving the whole team room to own technical decisions.
  • Technically deep and still hands-on: recent enough engineering chops to be active in design and code review, be a real part of setting technical direction with the team, and write code where it helps.
  • we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
  • The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
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