Remote Senior Engineering Lead: Secrets Platform

Docker; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Docker is seeking a senior leader to head the Secrets platform team, shaping technical direction and ensuring secure, scalable cloud services. You will mentor senior engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product management to align with business goals.

This remote‑first role requires hands‑on engineering experience, a strong security mindset, and the ability to lead across distributed teams while maintaining high execution standards.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading security‑critical software teams.
• Proven track record in scalable cloud services and secure design.
• Strong mentoring and organizational leadership capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers building Docker's shared Secrets platform and own its technical direction.
• Partner with product management to align with business goals.
• Lead through influence across teams adopting the platform.
• Ensure delivery and on-call rotation and incident response.
• Maintain high security and coordinate with Security on reviews and threat models.
• Hire and retain top engineering talent.
• Facilitate cross-team communication and collaboration.

Skills

Security leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Team leadership

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Docker

Job description

Docker is seeking a senior leader to head the Secrets platform team, shaping technical direction and ensuring secure, scalable cloud services. You will mentor senior engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product management to align with business goals.

This remote‑first role requires hands‑on engineering experience, a strong security mindset, and the ability to lead across distributed teams while maintaining high execution standards.