Senior Platform Engineer, Self-Serve Infra & Multi-Region

Docker, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Freedom & flexibility

Whaleness Days

Home office setup

Parental leave

Technology stipend

Equity

Remote-friendly with Seattle office

Job summary

Docker, Inc. is seeking a senior platform engineer to own major parts of our internal platform end to end. You’ll drive design to production, building self-service provisioning, multi-region networking, and reliable cross-account connectivity to support rapid region launches.

You’ll work hands-on with Go, Terraform, Argo CD, and EKS, shaping how teams ship with guardrails and observable defaults. The role includes on-call ownership and a path to broader impact across the platform as we

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Strong software engineering in Go or a similar language: design, testing, debugging, review, and long-term maintainability.
• A track record of building, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure in production.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms.
• Experience shaping technical direction and working effectively across teams.
• Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment.
• Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into clear designs and working systems.
• Build self-service capabilities and platform APIs for onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations.
• Apply and help shape delivery standards with Terraform, GitOps on Argo CD, progressive rollout, and strong testing.
• Strengthen the multi-tenant EKS foundations for reliability, security, scale, and cost.
• Improve SLOs, alerting, and incident follow-up on Grafana Cloud.

Skills

Go language

Cloud services

Kubernetes

Reliability engineering

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

GitOps

Argo CD

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Docker, Inc. is seeking a senior platform engineer to own major parts of our internal platform end to end. You’ll drive design to production, building self-service provisioning, multi-region networking, and reliable cross-account connectivity to support rapid region launches.

You’ll work hands-on with Go, Terraform, Argo CD, and EKS, shaping how teams ship with guardrails and observable defaults. The role includes on-call ownership and a path to broader impact across the platform as we