Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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🌐 United Kingdom, United States – Remote

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💵 €110.5k - €181.5k / year

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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

• Set technical direction for major backend and developer-experience initiatives across Clojure, Go and adjacent systems • Turn ambiguous product or platform problems into clear plans, staged decisions and measurable outcomes • Design, build and operate distributed services, event pipelines, databases and APIs with strong security and reliability characteristics • Lead cross-team delivery, surface risks early and remove technical or organisational blockers • Make pragmatic recommendations about retaining, evolving or replacing existing components, including reducing legacy Datomic dependencies • Partner with Product, Design, Security and engineering teams to connect technical investment to developer and business outcomes • Improve observability, incident readiness, performance and service ownership • Improve engineering leverage through automation, AI-assisted workflows and controls • Mentor senior engineers, raise design and code review quality and create reusable patterns • Stay hands-on through implementation, debugging and the paid on-call rotation • Communicate decisions and trade-offs clearly in a remote, async-first environment • Lead ambiguous, cross-team work from problem definition through measurable outcomes while shaping architecture and operational standards

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with technical leadership on production systems at scale • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Deep experience designing, building and operating production backend or platform systems • Strong programming ability in at least one production language • Ability to become effective in unfamiliar languages and codebases • Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, relational or distributed databases and cloud-native infrastructure • Track record of leading complex initiatives across team or organisational boundaries • Strong technical and product judgement, including explaining constraints, alternatives, customer outcomes and business trade-offs • Evidence of influencing without authority and improving experienced engineers’ effectiveness • Operational mindset covering observability, resilience, incident response and on-call ownership • Critical use of AI-assisted engineering tools with ownership of results • Clear written and spoken communication suited to a remote, async-first company • Production experience with Go, Clojure or both is helpful but not required • Experience with Spanner, Datomic, Kafka or other distributed data and streaming platforms is helpful but not required • Experience with build systems, containers, artefact workflows or developer tooling is helpful but not required • Experience evolving a platform, database or language strategy without disrupting product delivery is helpful but not required • Experience building security or software supply-chain products is helpful but not required • Sponsorship is considered case by case based on business needs

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life • Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break • Home office setup • 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 • Docker Swag • Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country • Remote-first culture