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Docker has been of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout.
We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. 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.
Docker is shipping a wave of new products this year, with R&D initiatives likely to lead to more, and we're investing heavily in the platform underneath all of it. That platform supports hundreds of engineers across many development teams and carries high-scale production traffic and data transfer every day. It has grown faster than its foundations, and this year is about closing that gap.
Today, much of that work still leans on a handful of experts unblocking the same provisioning and operational workflows by hand. The top priority for this role is moving that work from expert-driven support to
The concrete version sits on this year's roadmap: spinning up a new global region or application environment should take hours, not days. Right now it takes days. Getting there means building the foundations underneath it. We need a real multi-region, cross-account network architecture and a testing and continuous-deployment flow teams can trust, then a self-service layer on top.
We're the container company building our own internal platform, so the bar for "the easy path is also the safe path" is high. You'd be joining a team of four, growing to seven this year (this is of those hires), and we're looking for a Staff engineer to set technical direction and lead it through real production adoption.
This is a Staff-level role, so success is measured by leverage rather than just your own commits. On a team this size you'll stay hands-on in the codebase while also setting direction, aligning teams on pragmatic standards, and carrying platform investments through to adoption. Concretely, you will:
Take ambiguous infrastructure problems and turn them into proposals the org can rally around, then drive them through RFCs and architecture reviews across teams.
Design self-service capabilities and platform APIs (primarily in
) for, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations, with contracts and docs teams actually use.
,
, progressive rollout, and good testing, including building the continuous-deployment flow we're missing today.
foundations toward better reliability, security, scale, and cost:
ingress, traffic routing, and the multi-region, cross-account connectivity we need.
so production gets safer and less dependent on heroics.
We judge this work by outcomes the consuming teams feel: how fast they can provision and ship, how much they can do without us, and how reliably it all runs.
We're actively investing in AI-assisted and agentic workflows to cut operational toil. We care that they stay safe, auditable, and human-reviewed. You'll help shape where these earn their place and where they don't
and
, with a human in the loop on anything that changes production.
that answer the questions our experts answer today.
If you've built operational automation and have a healthy skepticism about where automation belongs, this is a place to put both to work.
Operational ownership is part of the job. You'll join the rotation after and shadowing. As a Staff engineer, you'll also improve the health of on-call itself, with better alerts, stronger runbooks, less toil, and blameless postmortems aimed at prevention.
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
Strong software engineering in
or a similar language: design, testing, debugging, review, long-term maintainability.
A track record designing, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure platforms in production. We hire for skill and impact, not years.
Deep expertise in at least of: Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms, plus solid Linux, networking, and production-ops fundamentals.
Experience setting technical direction and leading work that needs cross-team alignment.
Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment (RFCs, design docs, incident writeups).
You don't need every item here. We value deep expertise in area, strong systems judgment, and curiosity across the rest.
Canada: CA$238,250 – CA$382,250 + equity
United States: $170,350 – $275,550 + equity
– Work from your home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.
– We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering great work.
– Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break.
– Set up your workspace for comfort and success.
– Equivalent to
to help support your work.
– Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning.
– 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
– Share in Docker's long-term success as we continue to grow.
– Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country.
– Because representing the whale never gets old.
Docker is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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.
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visioning and operational workflows by hand. The top priority for this role is moving that work from expert-driven support to
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What is the salary for this role?
The salary for this role is $238,250 per annum.
What experience is required?
8+ years of experience is required.
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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Docker · Canada
