Staff Software Engineer, AI Substrate — Remote-First

Docker, Inc; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 170,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first by design

Generous PTO

Equity for all full-time employees

Learning & development stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Docker, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help design and build the agentic platform that runs at scale for enterprise customers. You will shape architecture, code core systems in Go, and own release and operations across multi-cloud environments.

Join a remote-first, senior team with on-call ownership, SLOs, and deep emphasis on reliability, security, and observability as we enable autonomous workflows for Docker's products.

Qualifications

• Experience building cloud control planes and multi-tenant environments in production.
• Kubernetes controllers/operators, reconciliation, and CRDs in production.
• Deep cloud experience across compute, networking, identity, and managed services.
• Go proficiency; Docker's backend is Go.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the agentic platform for enterprise customers.
• Ensure consistent deployment across clouds with robust security and identity controls.
• Own release paths and supply chain for reproducible deployments.
• Provide production ownership: on-call, SLOs, incident response, tooling.
• Collaborate with runtime, developer experience, observability, and identity teams.
• Mentor the team and raise the bar through design reviews.

Skills

Cloud control plane

Kubernetes

Go programming

Production ownership

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

10+ years experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes controllers

CRDs

OCI registries

OpenTelemetry

Firecracker

Job description

Docker, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help design and build the agentic platform that runs at scale for enterprise customers. You will shape architecture, code core systems in Go, and own release and operations across multi-cloud environments.

Join a remote-first, senior team with on-call ownership, SLOs, and deep emphasis on reliability, security, and observability as we enable autonomous workflows for Docker's products.