Principal Software Engineer, AI Tools, Security

🕒 November 17, 2025

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $232k - $319k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Docker, Inc

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51 - 200 employees

💰 $105M Series C on 2022-03

At Docker, we simplify the lives of developers who are making world-changing apps. Docker helps developers bring their ideas to reality by conquering the complexity of app development. We simplify and accelerate workflows with an integrated development pipeline and application components. Actively used by millions of developers around the world, Docker Desktop and Docker Hub provide unmatched simplicity, agility and choice.

📋 Description

• Define the technical solution for a new product • Help shape the product with peers in Product and Design • Mentor other technical team members • Be the technical point of contact for the team

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of backend engineering experience, including extensive work on production-grade, distributed systems at scale. • Technical leadership across multiple teams or domains, with a proven ability to drive architectural vision, set technical direction, and influence long-term product strategy. • Exceptional product and platform mindset—you think beyond implementation details to how technology shapes developer and business outcomes. • Expertise in designing and evolving large-scale, cloud-native systems, with deep knowledge of distributed computing, service-oriented architecture, and performance optimization. • Demonstrated experience building secure, resilient, and high-throughput backend services, with a strong grasp of reliability engineering principles (SLOs, observability, incident response). • Fluency in Go (preferred) or another modern systems language (Rust, Java, C++, etc.), with the ability to lead technical design reviews and mentor others in language-specific best practices. • Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals—CI/CD, testing strategy, source control, and deployment automation—applied in complex, multi-service environments. • Proven track record of technical mentorship and cross-functional collaboration, enabling teams to deliver high-impact, high-quality software efficiently. • Deep experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tooling. • Ownership mentality with a bias for action and iterative delivery, balancing short-term impact with long-term architectural health. • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Comfortable operating autonomously in distributed, remote-first teams, and leading through influence rather than authority.

🏖️ Benefits

• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life • Designated quarterly Whaleness Days • Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work • 16 weeks of paid Parental leave • Technology stipend equivalent to $100 net/month • PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy • Quarterly, company-wide hackathons • 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