Staff Platform Engineer - Go & Cloud Infra, Remote-First

Docker; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Freedom & flexibility

Designated quarterly Whaleness Days

Home office setup

16 weeks of parental leave

Technology stipend

Equity

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Docker is seeking a Staff Engineer to set technical direction and lead production adoption for a global, multi-region platform. You’ll stay hands-on while guiding cross‑team architecture and delivering self‑service provisioning and secure defaults.

This role emphasizes reliability, scalable infrastructure, and measurable impact, with opportunities to shape RFCs, design APIs in Go, and drive deployment pipelines using Terraform and GitOps tools, all in a remote‑first, globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional, hands‑on software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong software engineering in Go or a similar language: design, testing, debugging, review, long-term maintainability
• A track record designing, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure platforms in production
• Deep expertise in at least one of: Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms
• Experience setting technical direction and leading work that needs cross‑team alignment
• Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment (RFCs, design docs, incident writeups)

Responsibilities

• Take ambiguous infrastructure problems and turn them into proposals the org can rally around, then drive them through RFCs and architecture reviews across teams
• Design self-service capabilities and platform APIs (primarily in Go) for onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations, with contracts and docs teams actually use
• Set delivery standards using Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, progressive rollout, and good testing, including building the continuous-deployment flow we’re missing today
• Evolve the multi-tenant EKS foundations toward better reliability, security, scale, and cost: Envoy Gateway ingress, traffic routing, and the multi-region, cross-account connectivity we need
• Improve SLOs, alerting, and incident follow-up on Grafana Cloud so production gets safer and less dependent on heroics

Skills

8+ years experience

Go

Kubernetes

Networking

Cloud platforms

Reliability engineering

Developer platforms

Linux

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

GitOps with Argo CD

Envoy Gateway

Job description

Docker is seeking a Staff Engineer to set technical direction and lead production adoption for a global, multi-region platform. You’ll stay hands-on while guiding cross‑team architecture and delivering self‑service provisioning and secure defaults.

This role emphasizes reliability, scalable infrastructure, and measurable impact, with opportunities to shape RFCs, design APIs in Go, and drive deployment pipelines using Terraform and GitOps tools, all in a remote‑first, globally distributed team.