Staff Software Engineer (Fully Remote)

Docker

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave
Equity
Home office support

Job summary

Docker seeks an experienced engineer to build deployment and release systems for its enterprise platform using Go and Kubernetes. You will own production reliability with on‑call, SLOs, and incident response, and mentor engineers across teams.

You will set the technical direction, drive cross‑team collaboration on identity, observability, and runtime, and shape the future of Docker's cloud-native tooling. This remote‑first role offers strong ownership and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

  • Deep cloud and Kubernetes expertise.
  • Strong distributed systems and Go skills.
  • Willingness to own production reliability and on-call.

Responsibilities

  • Build deployment and release systems for Docker's enterprise platform using Go and Kubernetes.
  • Own production reliability with on-call, SLOs, and incident response.
  • Set technical direction and mentor engineers.
  • Drive cross-team collaboration on identity, observability, and runtime.

Skills

Go
Kubernetes
Distributed Systems
Cloud
On‑call
SLOs
Incident Response
Mentorship
Leadership

Tools

Go
Kubernetes

Job description

  • Build deployment and release systems for Docker's enterprise agentic platform using Go and Kubernetes.
  • Own production reliability with on-call, SLOs, and incident response.

Impact:

  • Set technical direction and mentor engineers.
  • Drive cross-team collaboration on identity, observability, and runtime.

Experience:

  • Deep cloud and Kubernetes expertise.
  • Strong distributed systems and Go skills.
  • Parental leave, equity, and home office support.
Docker

Docker builds developer tools trusted by over 20 million monthly users and billions of container pulls. It is a globally distributed, remote-first team with a culture of trust, flexibility, and engineering excellence.

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