Staff Software Engineer Infrastructure

Docker is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the development of self-service platform capabilities, infrastructure, and operational automation to improve provisioning, deployment, and reliability across multiple regions and teams. The role involves setting technical direction, designing APIs, and driving adoption of platform improvements in a remote, distributed environment.

Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Improve SLOs, alerting, and incident follow-up on Grafana Cloud so production gets safer and less dependent on heroics.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• 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).

Benefits

• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life.
• Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break.
• Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work.
• 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.
• Docker Swag.
• Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country.
• Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris.

Additional Information

• Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
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