Docker - Senior Software Engineer, Secure Build

Remote - United States, United Kingdom - Europe *€94k - €156k/year+ Equity2w ago

Remote Senior EMEA Senior Software Engineer Go Docker Observable

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Strong backend engineering experience building and operating distributed systems in production. • Production experience with Go and the ability to write, test, review and debug maintainable Go services. • Experience with containers and build or CI systems, such as OCI, BuildKit, Buildx, GitHub Actions or comparable platforms. • Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and a major cloud platform. • A strong operational mindset covering observability, reliability, incident response and on-call ownership. • Evidence of taking a feature or service from an ambiguous problem through production operation and measurable results. • Working knowledge of security boundaries, identity, secrets and common software supply-chain risks. • A strong product mindset and care for developer workflows, including experiences used by software agents. • Clear written and spoken communication suited to a remote, async-first company. • Experience with SLSA, in-toto, SBOM, VEX, Sigstore, cosign, provenance or artefact signing. • Experience with sandboxing, microVMs, untrusted workload execution or multi-tenant infrastructure. • Experience building hosted CI runners, remote builders or developer-platform infrastructure. • Experience with agentic development workflows or building systems used programmatically by software agents. • Experience evolving a legacy production system while delivering new capabilities. • What to Expect • First 30 Days • Build context on Docker Build Cloud, Auto Builds and the Secure Build product and technical direction. • Pair with the Secure Build team on core services, deployments and operational practices. • Ship a useful production change and take part in an operational review or incident-learning session. • Understand the secure-CI threat model and build relationships with DHI, Registry and Developer Experience. • First 90 Days • Own a secure-build feature or reliability improvement from problem definition through production. • Contribute materially to the secure-CI architecture, including isolation, identity, policy or signed evidence. • Deliver an observable improvement to the reliability or operability of an existing build service. • Demonstrate strong product judgement across developer and agent workflows. • One Year Outlook (First Year) • Be a trusted senior technical owner on the Secure Build team. • Deliver a material secure-CI or trusted-build capability used by customers or internal product teams. • Improve the reliability and maintainability of Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds while helping their useful capabilities converge with the wider platform. • Contribute to the team's architecture for isolated execution, brokered access and verifiable build outcomes. • Help establish strong product, design, review and operational practices as the team grows. • Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.

Responsibilities

• You will succeed by becoming an end-to-end owner for secure, reliable build infrastructure. Within your first year, you should have delivered a material secure-build or CI capability, reduced operational risk in Docker Build Cloud or Auto Builds, and become a trusted partner to the teams and customers that consume the platform. • Turn developer, agent and security problems into clear requirements, staged technical decisions and measurable outcomes. • Design, build and operate Go services and APIs that power Docker's build and secure-CI infrastructure. • Develop isolation, identity, policy, provenance, attestation and signing capabilities for trusted build and test jobs. • Work with container, OCI, BuildKit, cloud and isolated-execution technologies to deliver secure and reproducible workflows. • Own features from technical design through rollout, observability, incident response and ongoing maintenance. • Keep Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds reliable, make targeted improvements that reduce operational load, and help their capabilities evolve towards the wider Secure Build direction. • Make practical security trade-offs and use threat modelling to guide designs without blocking delivery. • Design for a clear developer experience, including workflows initiated or consumed by software agents. • Partner with Product, Security, Developer Experience, Registry and other platform teams on end-to-end customer workflows. • Participate in the team's paid on-call rotation and drive improvements from incidents and recurring operational work. • Communicate decisions, risks and progress clearly in a remote, async-first environment.

Benefits

• EU: €94,040 – €155,650+ equity • United States: $160,900 – $260,700 + equity • United States: • ______________________________________________________________________ • Open vacancy: This posting is for an existing open role. • Open vacancy: • AI in hiring: Docker may use AI-assisted tools during our recruiting process. • AI in hiring: • 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. • Interview recordings: • Remote-first by design – Work from your home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration. • Remote-first by design • Flexibility that fits your life – We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering great work. • Flexibility that fits your life • Time to recharge – Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break. • Time to recharge • Technology stipend – Equivalent to US$100 net per month to help support your work. • Technology stipend • US$100 net per month • Learning & development – Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning. • Learning & development • Parental leave – 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment. • Parental leave • Equity for all full-time employees – Share in Docker's long-term success as we continue to grow. • Equity for all full-time employees • Comprehensive benefits – Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country. • Docker swag – Because representing the whale never gets old. • Docker swag