Docker - Staff Backend Engineer, Hub (US East Coast)
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Requirements
• 12+ years backend engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems and large-scale backend architectures. • 12+ years • distributed systems • large-scale backend architectures • Strong production experience with Golang, including designing and operating large Go-based services in cloud environments. • Strong production experience with Golang • Strong production experience with Kubernetes, including operating services at scale. • Strong production experience with Kubernetes • Experience designing and running high-scale storage systems (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, or equivalent) in production. • Experience building and operating cloud-based services (AWS preferred). • Experience with event-driven or streaming systems, such as Kafka, SNS/SQS, or equivalent. • event-driven or streaming systems • Strong foundation in software engineering best practices: design documentation, testing strategies, CI/CD, code review, observability. • Comfortable functioning autonomously in a fully distributed, remote-first team and working effectively in a fast-paced environment. • Experience with OCI registries, artifact stores, or large-scale content distribution systems. • OCI registries • Familiarity with search/indexing systems or metadata-rich architectures. • Contributions to cloud-native or open-source ecosystems. • An engineer with deep experience in distributed systems and large-scale storage • distributed systems and large-scale storage • Someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and consistently optimizes for reliability, automation, and performance. • fast-paced environment • reliability, automation, and performance • A technical leader who takes ownership of complex systems and drives long-term architectural direction. • An engineer energised by the challenges of operating a global developer platform at massive scale.
Responsibilities
• Architect, build, and operate high-scale distributed systems powering Docker Hub’s registry platform—spanning artifact storage, metadata services, indexing workflows, and performance-critical APIs. • Lead the design and implementation of backend services with a strong emphasis on scalability, correctness, resilience, and performance. • Drive major initiatives around multi-region replication, caching strategies, request-path optimization, and core registry reliability. • Design, optimize, operate the data and storage layers - for both Relational and NoSql as well as object storage and related technologies. Develop schemas and data models to support high-throughput, large-volume workloads. Own systems end-to-end—from storage-layer behavior to API design, deployment workflows, and production monitoring. • Improve the performance and reliability of one of the world’s largest repositories of container images. Develop observability through metrics, traces, alerting, and dashboards. Lead improvements to deployment and operational tooling (e.g., Argo CD, GitHub Actions). Participate in on-call rotations as part of supporting critical production services. • Mentor engineers and lead design and architecture reviews. Partner with Product, Design, SRE, and Platform teams to deliver high-impact projects. Engage with open-source communities, cloud-native partners, and the broader ecosystem.
Benefits
• US Salary RangeUS Salary Range $195,400 – $275,550 • Offers Equity • The salary range is a guideline and actual starting compensation will be determined by location, level, skills, and experience. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Physical Mailing Address • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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