Senior Software Engineer — Secure Build & CI (Remote)

Docker; United States; Remote; USD 161,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Freedom & flexibility

Quarterly Wellbeing Days

Home office setup

Equity

PTO and learning budget

Tech stipend

Remote‑friendly culture

Job summary

Docker is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own secure build infrastructure. You will design, build and operate Go services powering Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds while ensuring security, reliability and scalable workflows for developers and software agents.

You will implement isolation, signing and policy features, partner with multiple platform teams, and lead features from design to production. The role emphasizes an outcome‑driven, async‑first approach in a remote‑first company.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong backend engineering experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
• Production experience with Go and the ability to write, test, review and debug maintainable Go services.
• Experience with containers and build or CI systems, such as OCI, BuildKit, Buildx, GitHub Actions or comparable platforms.
• Experience with cloud‑native infrastructure and a major cloud platform.
• A strong operational mindset covering observability, reliability, incident response and on‑call ownership.
• Evidence of taking a feature or service from an ambiguous problem through production operation and measurable results.
• Working knowledge of security boundaries, identity, secrets and common software supply‑chain risks.
• A strong product mindset and care for developer workflows, including experiences used by software agents.
• Clear written and spoken communication suited to a remote, async‑first company.

Responsibilities

• Turn developer, agent and security problems into clear requirements, staged technical decisions and measurable outcomes.
• Design, build and operate Go services and APIs that power Docker’s build and secure‑CI infrastructure.
• Develop isolation, identity, policy, provenance, attestation and signing capabilities for trusted build and test jobs.
• Work with container, OCI, BuildKit, cloud and isolated‑execution technologies to deliver secure and reproducible workflows.
• Own features from technical design through rollout, observability, incident response and ongoing maintenance.
• Keep Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds reliable, make targeted improvements that reduce operational load, and help their capabilities evolve towards the wider Secure Build direction.
• Make practical security trade‑offs and use threat modelling to guide designs without blocking delivery.
• Design for a clear developer experience, including workflows initiated or consumed by software agents.
• Partner with Product, Security, Developer Experience, Registry and other platform teams on end‑to‑end customer workflows.
• Participate in the team’s paid on‑call rotation and drive improvements from incidents and recurring operational work.
• Communicate decisions, risks and progress clearly in a remote, async‑first environment.

Skills

Go backend

Distributed systems

Security principles

DevOps & CI

Cloud platforms

Observability

On-call ownership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

OCI

BuildKit

Buildx

GitHub Actions

Job description

Docker is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own secure build infrastructure. You will design, build and operate Go services powering Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds while ensuring security, reliability and scalable workflows for developers and software agents.

You will implement isolation, signing and policy features, partner with multiple platform teams, and lead features from design to production. The role emphasizes an outcome‑driven, async‑first approach in a remote‑first company.