Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

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🌐 United Kingdom, Portugal, +3 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇮🇹 Italy – Remote 🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

💵 €121k - €198k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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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

• Embed with customer engineering teams to design, build, and ship solutions from prototype through stable production rollout • Deliver custom MCP servers, Docker Sandbox environments, Docker Compose definitions, hardened image standardization and migration, and tools that unblock customers • Integrate Docker's AI platform with identity providers, secrets management, private and air-gapped registries, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling • Own technical delivery by scoping work, sequencing tasks, making trade-offs, removing blockers, and contributing code • Translate customer security, compliance, and platform requirements into production plans • Help customers adopt agentic AI with appropriate security, compliance, data sovereignty, and end-user controls • Establish customer quality and performance standards and address issues below thresholds • Partner with security and platform teams on architecture review, threat modeling, and change control • Collaborate with Solutions Architecture on standard and bespoke solutions • Feed implementation learnings into reference architectures, SOW templates, success patterns, and product capabilities • Support proofs of concept, escalations, and expansion conversations • Provide customer feedback to Product and Engineering to influence the roadmap • Define FDE engagement models, delivery standards, and quality bars • Mentor and lead Forward Deployed Engineers and participate in hiring loops • Act as senior technical escalation point • Maintain current knowledge of LLMs, APIs, MCP, coding agents, evaluation methods, and deployment patterns • Participate in an on-call rotation outside standard business hours as needed

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in a customer-facing technical role • Technical leadership across multiple engagements, teams, or domains • Expert production coding skills in Go, Python, or TypeScript • Deep, hands-on Docker expertise, including Dockerfiles, multi-stage builds, Docker Compose, image and registry operations, container networking and storage, and container security fundamentals • Hands-on experience building with LLMs and agents in production, including tool use, function calling, MCP, prompt and context engineering, and agent evaluation • Working knowledge of software supply chain security, including SBOMs, image signing and attestation, vulnerability management, minimal and hardened base images, and secure CI/CD • Experience integrating enterprise systems including Okta, Entra ID, LDAP/Active Directory, OIDC, SAML, secrets managers, Kubernetes, and AWS, Azure, or GCP • Ability to scope and deliver complex work in ambiguous customer environments • Excellent communication skills with engineers, security and platform teams, and executive stakeholders • Proven technical mentorship experience • High agency and comfort operating autonomously in distributed, remote-first teams • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience • Ability to travel to customer sites, estimated up to 50% • Bonus: Experience with Docker Hardened Images, Docker Scout, MCP Gateway, MCP Toolkit, Docker Sandboxes, or Docker Model Runner • Bonus: Experience deploying coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Cursor • Bonus: Experience with air-gapped, regulated, or compliance-driven environments • Bonus: Open source contributions in container, Kubernetes, or MCP ecosystems • Bonus: Experience founding or scaling an FDE or Professional Services practice

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first by design • Flexibility that fits your life • Generous PTO • Designated quarterly Whaleness Days • Designated end-of-year Whaleness break • Home office support • Technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net per month • Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning • 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment • Equity for all full-time employees • Medical benefits • Retirement benefits • Paid holidays • Docker swag