Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Docker; United States; On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Freedom & flexibility

Whaleness Days policy

Home office setup

Parental leave

Technology stipend

PTO to enjoy life

Conferences & training stipend

Equity

Docker Swag

Medical benefits & retirement (country

Job summary

Docker is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Cloud Sandboxes team to design and build core infrastructure that powers its cloud agentic platform. You will create scalable, reliable, and secure systems enabling developers to deploy and manage agentic workloads.

You will work on multi‑tenant APIs, on‑call incident response, and collaborate with product, platform, and security teams to raise the bar for performance and observability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend software engineering experience building large‑scale cloud or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go and/or Java.
• Deep understanding of container orchestration, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, secure, and observable production systems.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and infrastructure‑as‑code tooling.
• Excellent problem‑solving and debugging skills in distributed environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across remote, cross‑functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate core services that power Docker’s Cloud Sandboxes platform.
• Build scalable systems for microVM orchestration, workload scheduling, and lifecycle management.
• Develop high‑performance APIs and control plane components for managing multi‑tenant workloads.
• Ensure system reliability, observability, and performance across Docker’s Cloud Sandbox infrastructure.
• Collaborate with product, platform, and security teams to deliver customer‑focused capabilities.
• Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, and design documents.
• Contribute to automation and CI/CD improvements across the deployment pipeline.
• Debug and resolve production issues across distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Take part in on‑call rotation for your team; respond to incidents, debug production issues, and drive continuous improvement of system reliability.

Skills

Go

Java

Container orchestration

Kubernetes

Microservices architecture

Highly available systems

Secure production systems

Cloud infrastructure

AWS

Azure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring

Infrastructure-as-code

Job description

Docker is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Cloud Sandboxes team to design and build core infrastructure that powers its cloud agentic platform. You will create scalable, reliable, and secure systems enabling developers to deploy and manage agentic workloads.

You will work on multi‑tenant APIs, on‑call incident response, and collaborate with product, platform, and security teams to raise the bar for performance and observability.