Engineering Manager: Secure Build & SCS Services Leader (Remote)

Docker, Inc; United States; On-site; USD 175,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote‑first by design

Flexibility that fits your life

Generous PTO and Whaleness Days

Home office support

Technology stipend (US$100 net/mo)

Learning & development stipend

Parental leave – 16 weeks

Equity for all full‑time employees

Comprehensive benefits

Docker swag

Job summary

Docker, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead two critical teams: Secure Build and SCS Services, delivering trusted build outcomes and data‑driven services across Docker Scout and Hardened Images.

You’ll own delivery, health, and growth, balancing roadmaps and ensuring alignment with product, security, and reliability priorities. You will stay close to the technical work while enabling leadership, mentorship, and strategic decision‑making, with a strong emphasis on governance, trust

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years managing high‑performing engineering teams, with meaningful responsibility across more than one team or distinct technical domain.
• 8+ years of professional, hands‑on software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, platform or developer tooling.
• Experience leading, growing and retaining engineers at or above your own technical seniority, including teams you did not build and difficult performance conversations.

Responsibilities

• Lead Secure Build and SCS Services, owning delivery, team health, growth, performance and operational excellence across both.
• Turn two changing roadmaps into a coherent portfolio plan with explicit priorities, capacity and trade‑offs, and create leadership coverage so neither team becomes the permanent second priority.
• Partner with Product to shape strategy and roadmaps for secure build, Docker Scout, Docker Hardened Images and the services that connect them.
• Stay close to the technical work through design and code review, incident response and selective hands‑on contribution where it adds leverage.
• Ensure each team's technical direction supports product, security, reliability and customer priorities, setting it collaboratively with Staff and senior engineers while leaving clear decision ownership with them.
• Own the interfaces between the teams, including trust boundaries, contracts, data quality, versioning, operational ownership and customer‑facing failure modes.
• Balance new product work with inherited systems and on‑call, and invest in reliability improvements driven by recurring operational pain.
• Own engineer growth and performance, handle difficult conversations directly, hire and retain strong people and build succession depth within both teams.
• Align Product, Design, Security, DHI Content, Registry, Hub, sales, support, commercial and legal partners while shielding the teams from churn.
• Lead disciplined use of AI‑assisted engineering and communicate decisions, risks and progress clearly across UK and US working hours.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Backend systems

CI/CD

Security mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Go

Clojure

Kafka

Spanner

Datomic

GitHub Actions

BuildKit

Buildx

OCI

Job description

Docker, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead two critical teams: Secure Build and SCS Services, delivering trusted build outcomes and data‑driven services across Docker Scout and Hardened Images.

You’ll own delivery, health, and growth, balancing roadmaps and ensuring alignment with product, security, and reliability priorities. You will stay close to the technical work while enabling leadership, mentorship, and strategic decision‑making, with a strong emphasis on governance, trust