Staff Engineer, AI Agentic Platform (Remote-First)

Docker

Seattle (WA)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Freedom & flexibility
Quarterly Whaleness Days
Home office setup
16 weeks of paid Parental leave
Technology stipend
PTO plan
Training stipend
Equity offerings
Medical benefits and retirement
Remote-first culture

Job summary

Docker is seeking a Staff Engineer in Seattle to own and operate its Agentic Platform services. You will design the core runtime for AI-driven workflows, focusing on reliability and scalability within a cloud-native environment.

Key responsibilities include managing cloud infrastructure, mentoring engineers, and driving architectural decisions. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience, strong cloud expertise, and proficiency in backend development, especially in Go.

Docker embraces diversity and provides benefits like flexible work arrangements and paid parental leave.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • Proven experience operating production services in cloud environments.
  • Strong understanding of fault tolerance and scalability in cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design core agent execution runtime for long-running workflows.
  • Build multi-agent coordination patterns and interactive tooling.
  • Own and operate cloud services; manage infrastructure with Terraform.

Skills

Cloud Platform Expertise (AWS/OCI/Azure/GCP)
Backend Engineering Proficiency
Distributed Systems Design
Service Ownership in a Cloud Setting
Proficiency in Go

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform
Kubernetes
AWS

Job description

Docker is seeking a Staff Engineer in Seattle to own and operate its Agentic Platform services. You will design the core runtime for AI-driven workflows, focusing on reliability and scalability within a cloud-native environment.

Key responsibilities include managing cloud infrastructure, mentoring engineers, and driving architectural decisions. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience, strong cloud expertise, and proficiency in backend development, especially in Go.

Docker embraces diversity and provides benefits like flexible work arrangements and paid parental leave.

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