--- title: 'Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Docker' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-infrastructure-docker-canada-sac8gsxfam0e' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-04' --- # Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Docker - **Company:** Docker - **Location:** Canada - **Compensation:** $238k–$382k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-06-08 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/docker/9bbe3ad7-f4be-4efa-8889-b93e9d62c1ed/application **Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, Argo CD, GitOps, Linux, Networking, Cloud platforms, Envoy Gateway, Ingress/CNI, Service mesh, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, GitHub Actions, Progressive delivery > Docker seeks a Staff Software Engineer to build self-service infrastructure platforms, focusing on multi-region networking, EKS reliability, and CI/CD flows. The role involves designing Go-based APIs, setting technical direction, and reducing operational toil through automation and AI-assisted workflows. ## Job description ## ABOUT DOCKER Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default. _______________________________________________________________________ Docker is shipping a wave of new products this year, with R&D initiatives likely to lead to more, and we're investing heavily in the platform underneath all of it. That platform supports hundreds of engineers across many development teams and carries high-scale production traffic and data transfer every day. It has grown faster than its foundations, and this year is about closing that gap. Today, much of that work still leans on a handful of experts unblocking the same provisioning and operational workflows by hand. The top priority for this role is moving that work from expert-driven support to paved roads: self-service systems with clear ownership, safe defaults, strong guardrails, and adoption we can measure. The goal is a platform teams trust enough to stop thinking about it, one that just works, so they can focus on their own products instead of ours. The concrete version sits on this year's roadmap: spinning up a new global region or application environment should take hours, not days. Right now it takes days. Getting there means building the foundations underneath it. We need a real multi-region, cross-account network architecture and a testing and continuous-deployment flow teams can trust, then a self-service layer on top. We're the container company building our own internal platform, so the bar for "the easy path is also the safe path" is high. You'd be joining a team of four, growing to seven this year (this is one of those hires), and we're looking for a Staff engineer to set technical direction and lead it through real production adoption. ## RESPONSIBILITIES This is a Staff-level role, so success is measured by leverage rather than just your own commits. On a team this size you'll stay hands-on in the codebase while also setting direction, aligning teams on pragmatic standards, and carrying platform investments through to adoption. Concretely, you will: - Take ambiguous infrastructure problems and turn them into proposals the org can rally around, then drive them through RFCs and architecture reviews across teams. - Design self-service capabilities and platform APIs (primarily in Go) for onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations, with contracts and docs teams actually use. - Set delivery standards using Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, progressive rollout, and good testing, including building the continuous-deployment flow we're missing today. - Evolve the multi-tenant EKS foundations toward better reliability, security, scale, and cost: Envoy Gateway ingress, traffic routing, and the multi-region, cross-account connectivity we need. - Improve SLOs, alerting, and incident follow-up on Grafana Cloud so production gets safer and less dependent on heroics. We judge this work by outcomes the consuming teams feel: how fast they can provision and ship, how much they can do without us, and how reliably it all runs. ## AI-ASSISTED OPERATIONS We're actively investing in AI-assisted and agentic workflows to cut operational toil. We care that they stay safe, auditable, and human-reviewed. You'll help shape where these earn their place and where they don't. Early targets include: - Alert enrichment and incident context-gathering: assembling the relevant signals, history, and runbook so the on-call engineer starts with context instead of a blank page. - Runbook-assisted diagnosis and remediation recommendations, with a human in the loop on anything that changes production. - Onboarding and readiness assistants that answer the questions our experts answer today. If you've built operational automation and have a healthy skepticism about where automation belongs, this is a place to put both to work. On-call Operational ownership is part of the job. You'll join the rotation after onboarding and shadowing. As a Staff engineer, you'll also improve the health of on-call itself, with better alerts, stronger runbooks, less toil, and blameless postmortems aimed at prevention. ## QUALIFICATIONS - 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience - Strong software engineering in Go or a similar language: design, testing, debugging, review, long-term maintainability. - A track record designing, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure platforms in production. We hire for skill and impact, not years. - Deep expertise in at least one of: Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms, plus solid Linux, networking, and production-ops fundamentals. - Experience setting technical direction and leading work that needs cross-team alignment. - Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment (RFCs, design docs, incident writeups). Nice to have: EKS and ingress/CNI/service-mesh experience; observability with OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana; CI/CD and progressive delivery (GitHub Actions, Argo CD, canaries); experience leading migrations or adoption programs across teams. You don't need every item here. We value deep expertise in one area, strong systems judgment, and curiosity across the rest. ## WHAT TO EXPECT ## FIRST 30 DAYS - Build context, meet partner teams, ship your first change, shadow on-call. ## FIRST 90 DAYS - Own a strategic platform problem with a clear plan and metrics; lead an improvement from design to production. ## ONE YEAR OUTLOOK - Lead a major cross-team initiative (for example, self-service provisioning of new regions and environments, or the multi-region networking and CD foundations behind it) and establish durable patterns that change how Docker engineers build and operate services. Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs. ## Compensation & Equity Canada: CA$238,250 – CA$382,250 + equity United States: $170,350 – $275,550 + equity ______________________________________________________________________ ## POSTING INFORMATION - Open vacancy: This posting is for an existing open role. - AI in hiring: Docker may use AI-assisted tools during our recruiting process. - Interview recordings: Candidates will be invited to opt in to interview recordings to support interviewer calibration and consistent evaluations. Recordings are optional and require explicit consent. ______________________________________________________________________ ## PERKS & BENEFITS - Remote-first by design – Work from your home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration. - Flexibility that fits your life – We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering great work. - Time to recharge – Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break. - Home office support – Set up your workspace for comfort and success. - Technology stipend – Equivalent to US$100 net per month to help support your work. - Learning & development – Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning. - Parental leave – 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment. - Equity for all full-time employees – Share in Docker's long-term success as we continue to grow. - Comprehensive benefits – Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country. - Docker swag – Because representing the whale never gets old. Docker is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe diverse teams build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our global community. ## #LI-REMOTE ## About Docker ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Docker provides a suite of tools and platforms that enable developers to build, share, and run applications using containers, simplifying the entire software development lifecycle. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, USA - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Solomon Hykes, Sebastien Pahl, Kamel Founadi ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Developer Tools / DevOps / Containerization - **Target Customers**: B2B; primarily individual developers, small teams, and large enterprises (91% of the Fortune 100 run on Docker). - **Mission/Purpose**: "We simplify the lives of developers building world-changing apps." ## Products & Services - **[Docker Desktop](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/)**: A desktop application for building, running, and managing containers locally. It is the core product for individual developers and teams. (SaaS/Desktop App) - **[Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/)**: A cloud-based registry service for sharing container images, with over 20 billion pulls per month. (SaaS) - **[Docker Engine](https://www.docker.com/products/container-runtime/)**: The industry-standard container runtime that powers millions of containers worldwide. (Open Source/Infrastructure) - **[Docker Scout](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-scout/)**: A supply chain security tool that provides vulnerability analysis and remediation guidance for container images. (SaaS) - **[Docker Build Cloud](https://www.docker.com/products/build-cloud/)**: A cloud-based build service that accelerates image builds. (SaaS) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric (Funding)**: Total funding of ~$273M. The last round was a $105M Series C in March 2022, led by Bain Capital Ventures. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Bain Capital Ventures, Benchmark, Insight Partners, Greylock, Tribe Capital, Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure. - **Growth Signals**: 20M+ developers actively use Docker products; 20B+ pulls per month on Docker Hub; 91% of the Fortune 100 run Docker; strong adoption of Docker Scout and Build Cloud. ## Competitive Advantages - **Massive Ecosystem & Community**: The de facto standard for containerization with an enormous user base and a vast library of pre-built images on Docker Hub. - **Developer Obsession**: Products are designed from the ground up for the developer experience, reducing friction in the "inner loop" of development. - **End-to-End Platform**: Covers the entire development lifecycle from local development (Desktop) to image sharing (Hub) to security (Scout) to production builds (Build Cloud). - **Enterprise Trust**: Widely adopted by the world's largest companies, providing a clear path from individual use to enterprise deployment. ## Strategic Focus - **Security & Supply Chain**: Deepening capabilities in software supply chain security with Docker Scout and integrating security earlier into the development workflow. - **Cloud Acceleration**: Expanding Docker Build Cloud and other cloud services to improve developer productivity and speed. - **Enterprise Adoption**: Strengthening features for large organizations, including admin controls, SSO, and compliance. - **AI/ML Workflows**: Simplifying the building and deployment of AI/ML applications using containers. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes "Humble Confidence," "Open Collaboration," and "Developer Obsession." They value transparency, autonomy, and respect. - **Remote-First**: Fully remote company with office hubs in Paris and Seattle. They embrace asynchronous work, flexible schedules, and trust employees to manage their work around their lives. - **Perks & Benefits**: 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and dependents (US), flexible PTO, quarterly "Whaleness Days" (company-wide day off), generous parental leave, home office setup budget, monthly technology stipend, annual learning stipend, and equity. - **Engineering Culture**: Quarterly hackathons, a product used by millions, and a focus on data-driven decisions. The hiring process is designed to be transparent and equitable, typically taking 3-4 weeks. - **Diversity & Belonging**: Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for Underrepresented Genders, DEIB, Mental Health, Caregivers, and Neurodivergent employees. ## Sources 1. [Docker About Page](https://www.docker.com/company/) 2. 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