Docker - Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Requirements
• 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering. • 8+ years • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Strong software engineering in Go 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 one 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). • Nice to have: EKS and ingress/CNI/service-mesh experience; observability with OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana; CI/CD and progressive delivery (GitHub Actions, Argo CD, canaries); experience leading migrations or adoption programs across teams. • You don't need every item here. We value deep expertise in one area, strong systems judgment, and curiosity across the rest. • What to Expect • What to Expect • First 30 days • First 30 days • Build context, meet partner teams, ship your first change, shadow on-call. • First 90 days • First 90 days • Own a strategic platform problem with a clear plan and metrics; lead an improvement from design to production. • One Year Outlook • One Year Outlook • Lead a major cross-team initiative (for example, self-service provisioning of new regions and environments, or the multi-region networking and CD foundations behind it) and establish durable patterns that change how Docker engineers build and operate services. • Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
Responsibilities
• 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 Go) for onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations, with contracts and docs teams actually use. • Set delivery standards using Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, progressive rollout, and good testing, including building the continuous-deployment flow we're missing today. • Terraform • GitOps with Argo CD • Evolve the multi-tenant EKS foundations toward better reliability, security, scale, and cost: Envoy Gateway ingress, traffic routing, and the multi-region, cross-account connectivity we need. • Envoy Gateway • Improve SLOs, alerting, and incident follow-up on Grafana Cloud so production gets safer and less dependent on heroics. • Grafana Cloud • 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. • AI-assisted operations • 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. Early targets include: • Alert enrichment and incident context-gathering: assembling the relevant signals, history, and runbook so the on-call engineer starts with context instead of a blank page. • Alert enrichment and incident context-gathering • Runbook-assisted diagnosis and remediation recommendations, with a human in the loop on anything that changes production. • Runbook-assisted diagnosis • remediation recommendations • Onboarding and readiness assistants that answer the questions our experts answer today. • Onboarding and readiness assistants • If you've built operational automation and have a healthy skepticism about where automation belongs, this is a place to put both to work. • On-call • Operational ownership is part of the job. You'll join the rotation after onboarding 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.
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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