Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

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🏄 California, Washington – Remote

🏄 California – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $198k - $319k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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 first prototype through stable production rollout • Use existing Docker products and patterns when possible; invent, prototype, and validate innovative solutions when necessary • Deliver technical artifacts including custom MCP servers with Docker Sandbox environments, Docker Compose definitions, Hardened Image standardization and migration, and tools that unblock customer progress • 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 it, making speed-versus-quality trade-offs, removing blockers, and contributing directly to code • Translate customer security, compliance, and platform requirements into concrete plans through production • Help customers define controls for safe, compliant agentic AI adoption • Establish quality and performance standards and address issues outside established thresholds • Partner with customer security and platform teams on architecture review, threat modeling, and change control • Work with Solutions Architects on off-the-shelf and bespoke solutions • Feed implementation learnings into reference architectures, SOW templates, and success patterns • Support proofs of concept, escalations, and expansion conversations • Collaborate with Product and Engineering to incorporate FDE innovations, learnings, and design patterns into products and services • Provide data-driven customer feedback to Product and Engineering to influence the roadmap • Define the FDE engagement model, delivery standards, and quality bar • Mentor and lead Forward Deployed Engineers and participate in hiring loops • Act as senior technical escalation point on the hardest customer problems • Maintain current knowledge of LLMs, APIs, MCP, coding agents, evaluation approaches, performance thresholds, 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 such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Professional Services Engineer, or Software Engineer with consulting or technical founder experience • Technical leadership across multiple engagements, teams, or domains, with ability to set delivery standards, define repeatable patterns, and influence product direction through field evidence • Expert production coding skills in Go, Python, or TypeScript • Track record of shipping and operating software that other people depend on and leading technical design reviews • Deep, hands-on Docker expertise: Dockerfiles and 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 and function calling, MCP server and client implementation, prompt and context engineering, and evaluation of agent behavior • Working knowledge of software supply chain security: SBOMs, image signing and attestation, vulnerability management, minimal and hardened base images, and secure CI/CD • Experience integrating with enterprise systems: Okta, Entra ID, LDAP/Active Directory, OIDC, SAML, secrets managers, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) • Ability to scope and deliver complex work in ambiguous, fast-moving customer environments, making sound trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality • Excellent communication skills with engineers, security and platform teams, and executive stakeholders • Proven track record of technical mentorship and raising the bar for engineers • High agency and comfort operating autonomously in distributed, remote-first teams • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Travel to customer sites to build in person with customer teams, estimated at up to 50% • Visa sponsorship is considered case-by-case based on business needs

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first by design — Work from your home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration. • Flexibility that fits your life — Manage your schedule while delivering great work. • 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 learning and development 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