Senior Principal Software Engineer (Fully Remote)

Docker; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Docker is a developer tooling platform trusted by 20M+ users, with products like Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. It is a globally distributed, remote-first team building AI-ready infrastructure for software delivery.

We are seeking an engineering leader to define the technical vision for scalable, secure platforms and to drive best practices across the organization while mentoring engineers and ensuring reliability and compliance.

Qualifications

• Provide architectural direction for scalable platforms.
• Lead engineering best practices and standards across teams.
• Coach and mentor engineers to foster continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision for scalable, secure, and performant platforms.
• Evaluate tools and frameworks to keep the stack state-of-the-art.
• Set engineering best practices and standards across the organization.
• Coach and mentor engineers to foster continuous learning.
• Design highly available, fault-tolerant systems and optimize performance.
• Champion secure coding and collaborate on compliance.

Skills

Technical vision

Leadership

Mentorship

Secure coding

Job description

• Define the technical vision for scalable, secure, and performant platforms.
• Evaluate tools and frameworks to keep the stack state-of-the-art.
• Set engineering best practices and standards across the organization.
• Coach and mentor engineers to foster continuous learning.

Reliability & Security:

• Design highly available, fault-tolerant systems and optimize performance.
• Champion secure coding and collaborate on compliance.

Docker

Docker is a developer tooling platform trusted by 20M+ users, with products like Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. It is a globally distributed, remote-first team building AI-ready infrastructure for software delivery.