Senior Sandbox & Runtime Infra Engineer (Remote-First)

Docker

United States

Remote

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Home office stipend

Parental leave (16 weeks)

PTO plan

Technology stipend

Job summary

Docker is seeking a highly experienced software engineer to advance its sandboxing and runtime infrastructure for AI agent workloads. You will own major components, drive performance, reliability, and security across cross-platform environments, and collaborate with both internal teams and external open source communities.

The role emphasizes remote-first collaboration, architectural leadership, and delivering measurable improvements in the local sandboxes stack.

Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience with leadership on production systems at scale.
Experience building developer tools, desktop apps, or runtime infrastructure used by developers.
Familiarity with agentic software development ecosystems and tools like Claude Code/Codex or similar agents.

Responsibilities

Investigate and resolve correctness, performance, and stability issues in the agent integration layer across macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Drive reliability and performance of sandbox creation, session management, and teardown for AI agent workloads.
Engage with open source and upstream communities around sandboxing, MCP, and related ecosystems.
Become a technical owner of key parts of the codebase and guide long-term filesystem strategy.