Principal Software Engineer, Docker Hardened Images

🕒 June 23

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Docker, Inc

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

☁️ SaaS

💰 $105M Series C on 2022-03

Consulting • SaaS

Docker, Inc is a company that simplifies the lives of developers by tackling the complexity of app development. They offer tools that allow developers to bring their ideas to life through containerization and orchestration, making the development process easier and more efficient. Docker's products, including Docker Desktop and Docker Hub, are widely adopted by millions of developers worldwide, enhancing workflows and providing an integrated development pipeline.

📋 Description

• Own the architecture for DHI as a platform, making high-leverage decisions that define how images and Helm charts are authored, secured, distributed, and evolved across the entire catalogue and across Docker's broader product surface. • Define and drive multi-quarter technical roadmaps for the container hardening domain, balancing upstream velocity, supply chain security posture, customer compliance requirements, and long-term catalogue scalability. • Identify systemic patterns from customer, operational, and upstream signals and translate them into architectural changes that span the catalogue, not just individual images or charts. • Build alignment across teams and executives on technical strategy, tradeoffs, and sequencing, including product, security, infrastructure, and customer-facing functions. • Represent Docker as a trusted technical voice in escalations, key enterprise customer engagements, and upstream OSS communities on issues that shape the future of secure container delivery. • Set conventions and standards at scale, defining the patterns others build within for image definition, Helm chart adaptation, hardening strategy, and supply chain tooling (Sigstore, SBOM, SLSA), and evolving those standards as the ecosystem changes. • Drive the hardest, most ambiguous packaging problems where the right answer requires reasoning across upstream dynamics, security tradeoffs, multi-arch constraints, and customer impact simultaneously. • Shape the integration test infrastructure and developer tooling strategy so that DHI's engineering platform scales with the catalogue and raises quality across the team. • Mentor and raise the technical ceiling for staff and senior engineers across the org, through review, design, and well-chosen architectural decisions that create durable leverage. • Take part in the paid on-call rotation; respond to incidents, debug production issues, and drive systemic improvements in reliability.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including extensive work on production-grade, distributed systems at scale. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • Ability to set multi-quarter technical roadmaps and align stakeholders (engineering, product, and executives) on strategy and tradeoffs. • Deep expertise in the container and Kubernetes ecosystem: you have strong, grounded opinions about cert-manager, kyverno, grafana, istio, and similar projects, and you can reason about tradeoffs at the ecosystem level, not just the image level. • Mastery of container supply chain security concepts (provenance, attestation, SBOM, signing, SLSA) and experience driving posture decisions across an organization rather than implementing them on a single project. • Strong software engineering fundamentals: code review, testing, source control, CI/CD, and Go sufficient to shape infrastructure and harness design. • Track record of technical influence without authority across multiple teams or organizations, raising quality through design docs, standards, review, and mentorship. • Experience navigating upstream OSS communities as a decision-maker, representing a downstream organization's requirements and shaping upstream direction on security-relevant issues. • Comfort working across remote, distributed teams and communicating complex technical strategy clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

🏖️ Benefits

• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life • Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break • Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work • 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment) • Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month • PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy • Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes • Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company • Docker Swag • Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country • Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris