Docker - Manager, Engineering, Secure Build
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Requirements
• 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. • 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 • 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. • Experience operating production infrastructure: on-call, incident response, SLOs, and the realities of keeping high-traffic services healthy. • 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. • Hands-on familiarity with Go is a plus; it's the team's primary language. • What to expect • First 30 days • Get to know the team, the systems, and the commitments before changing anything. 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. • First 90 days. • Own the delivery plan with the team and Product. Get the on-call rotation to a healthy, sustainable place. Be the team's point of contact across the wider org. • One year Outlook • The team is delivering against its roadmap and operating its production systems reliably, the on-call and delivery cadence are sustainable, and the team is growing both in capability and in number. • Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
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. • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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. • Be accountable for the reliability and operational excellence of the team's production services, including a healthy, humane on-call rotation. • Own the growth, development, and performance of each engineer on the team, and hire to strengthen it. • Work across the wider org - Product, sales, commercial and legal, the Hub/registry team, and security - to align the team and shield it from churn. • Hold a high bar for engineering excellence and raise the team's security hygiene.
Benefits
• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life • Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break • 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 • Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company • Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country • Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris • Docker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.
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