Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
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.
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The next wave of enterprise transformation is being built by the Global Systems Integrators and every one of them is racing to stand up AI transformation and AI governance practices for their clients. Docker's AI Governance strategy is the natural infrastructure layer underneath that motion, and we need a senior partner leader to make that connection real, commercially, at scale.
We're looking for a Principal, GSI & SI Partnerships to build and lead Docker's engagement with the world's largest consultancies and systems integrators; Accenture, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and others, as both a strategic force multiplier for our AI Governance narrative and a tactical revenue engine through co-sell.
This is a dual-altitude role. At one level, you are the executive relationship-holder who gets Docker a seat at the table inside GSI AI practices; shaping how they build, package, and go to market with AI transformation offerings. At the other, you are the operator who turns those relationships into pipeline: enabling sales teams, building joint plays, and driving deals to close. You will define how Docker becomes the trusted infrastructure partner GSIs build their AI consultancy motions on top of and how they make money doing it.
KEY STAKEHOLDERS & CROSS-FUNCTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
- Primary: CRO and Sales Leadership; Global Alliances Leadership; Partner Leadership Team
- Primary: Professional Services, Field Sales and Solutions Engineering teams (co-sell enablement and execution)
- Secondary: Product Marketing, Demand Generation, Ecosystem Marketing
- Secondary: Cloud & Channel Partnerships, Technology Alliances, Product Management
- External: Accenture, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and other GSIs/SIs including their AI/GenAI practice leadership, industry verticals, and delivery organizations
RESPONSIBILITIES
GSI Strategy & Executive Engagement
- Own Docker's global GSI/SI partnership strategy, prioritizing and sequencing engagement across Accenture, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and other top-tier consultancies.
- Build and sustain executive-level relationships with GSI AI/GenAI practice leaders, identifying where Docker's AI Governance capabilities plug directly into their existing AI transformation and consulting offerings.
- Develop the strategic narrative and business case that positions Docker as the infrastructure and governance layer GSIs need to de-risk and scale their clients' AI initiatives.
- Represent Docker in executive briefings, QBRs, and joint planning sessions with GSI leadership, establishing Docker as a preferred, differentiated partner rather than a vendor line item.
- Partner with Professional Services and field teams to both share appropriate service assets and build the service’s capabilities Docker needs in the partner ecosystem to serve our mutual customers.
Commercial Model & Monetization
- Design and articulate a clear "how GSIs make money with Docker" story, connecting Docker's AI Governance platform to GSI services revenue, delivery methodologies, and staffing models.
- Build joint solution offerings and packaged plays with GSIs that combine their advisory/delivery capability with Docker's platform, creating a repeatable, sellable motion for both sides.
- Negotiate and structure commercial frameworks (referral, resale, co-delivery) that align incentives and make Docker an attractive, profitable practice area for GSI partners. Align with Professional Services to build the service partner capacity needed to augment PS.
Tactical GTM & Co-Sell Execution
- Own end-to-end co-sell execution with GSI partners, from lead generation and account mapping through joint pursuit and deal closure.
- Partner directly with Docker's field sales organization to identify target accounts, build joint account plans, and drive GSI-sourced and GSI-influenced pipeline.
- Build the enablement infrastructure (playbooks, battlecards, training) that equips both Docker sellers and GSI teams to identify, position, and close joint opportunities.
- Establish a consistent cadence of joint pipeline reviews with GSI partners and internal sales leadership, ensuring strategic intent translates into closed revenue.
AI Governance Practice Integration
- Work closely with Product and Product Marketing to translate Docker's AI Governance framework (Containment, Curation, Control) into language and assets GSI practices can readily adopt into their own AI transformation offerings.
- Identify and prioritize the GSI industry verticals and use cases (e.g., regulated industries, agent-based transformation) where Docker's governance story creates the clearest differentiation and urgency.
- Partner with GSIs to co-develop points of view, joint IP, and reference architectures that embed Docker into their AI transformation methodology.
Team & Program Leadership
- Build out the GSI/SI partnership function as it scales — defining coverage models, hiring needs, and operating rhythms as engagement deepens across additional GSIs.
- Serve as a member of the Partner Leadership Team, contributing GSI/SI strategy and results to the broader partner ecosystem narrative.
- Report on GSI-sourced and GSI-influenced pipeline and revenue, practice development progress, and joint GTM plan execution to executive stakeholders.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 12+ years in partnerships, alliances, or GTM leadership, with substantial direct experience building and running relationships with GSIs/SIs (Accenture, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, or similar) at a B2B SaaS, infrastructure, or enterprise technology company. With strong existing network at the GSI senior exec level.
- Proven track record of building joint commercial models with GSIs and converting relationships into measurable co-sell pipeline and revenue.
- Experience navigating GSI internal structures, practice leadership, industry verticals, delivery organizations and knowing how to get a technology partner embedded into their offerings.
- Familiarity with AI/GenAI transformation programs, consulting delivery models, and how GSIs structure and monetize AI advisory and implementation work.
- Background in developer tools, cloud-native infrastructure, or AI/security ecosystems is a strong advantage.
SKILLS & COMPETENCIES
- Executive presence with the credibility to engage GSI practice leaders and partner C-suite as a peer.
- Dual fluency in strategy and execution, equally comfortable shaping a multi-year GSI strategy and running a weekly pipeline review with field sales.
- Strong commercial and deal-structuring acumen; able to design win-win economics that make Docker a priority practice for GSI partners.
- Skilled cross-functional operator, able to align Sales, Product, and Marketing behind a coherent GSI engagement motion.
- Data-driven: comfortable owning GSI-sourced/influenced pipeline reporting and practice development metrics.
- Excellent narrative and positioning skills, able to translate Docker's AI Governance story into language that resonates with consulting and advisory audiences.
LEADERSHIP & MINDSET
- A senior partner leader who has built a GSI/SI function from the ground up and knows how to earn a seat inside a consultancy's practice, not just a line on their partner list.
- Comfortable operating at the intersection of strategic influence and tactical deal execution, this is not a purely strategic or purely operational role.
- Global mindset, with the ability to prioritize and sequence engagement across a portfolio of GSIs and geographies.
- Genuinely energized by the opportunity to hitch Docker's AI Governance story to the world's largest AI transformation engines.
- Key Performance Indicators
- GSI-sourced and GSI-influenced pipeline and revenue growth
- Number and depth of active joint GTM motions with priority GSIs (Accenture, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and others)
- Executive relationship coverage and engagement depth across target GSI AI practices
- Joint offering/IP development milestones (co-branded solutions, reference architectures, playbooks)
- Field sales adoption and utilization of GSI co-sell enablement and plays
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Compensation & Equity
United States: $203.7K – $291K OTE + equity
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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.
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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
Location: England; Portugal; Spain; Italy; Germany
Workplace: Remote
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.
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Docker is launching a Professional Services organization to accelerate customer success, reduce time-to-value, and drive enterprise adoption for agentic workloads. As a Principal Solution Architect, you'll play a critical role in building and scaling this function. You will join a team of seasoned experts with deep experience backed by Docker's unmatched reach across Fortune 500 companies.
This is a high-visibility role working directly with senior leadership across revenue, product, marketing, and partner organizations. You'll shape service strategy, drive cross-functional alignment, and deliver offerings that accelerate both services revenue and platform expansion.
You'll serve as a trusted advisor to our largest and most strategic partners and enterprise customers, providing thought leadership on integrating Docker agentic solutions within enterprise environments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Build and Scale the Professional Services Practice
- Develop and codify repeatable reference architecture patterns across Docker's core use cases including self-hosted and air-gapped deployments, MCP (model context protocol)/AI agent environments, IDP integrations, and secure supply chain workflows so that engagements scale consistently across customers and partners.
- Translate reference architectures into customer-facing technical collateral, SOW templates, and success patterns that reduce scoping time and improve delivery consistency.
- Collaborate with product, marketing, and revenue teams to integrate services into GTM motions and align delivery to Docker's AI platform roadmap.
- Identify offerings that drive product expansion, renewals, and long-term customer value.
- Support Partnerships & Alliances in selecting, onboarding, and enabling technical integration partners, system integrators (SIs), and service delivery partners.
Drive Strategic Customer Outcomes
- Act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers, helping them adopt modern patterns for containerization, AI workflows, and secure software supply chains.
- Lead technical discovery and architecture engagements that span enterprise integration layers
- Architect and deliver self-hosted Docker deployments within air-gapped, regulated, and complex enterprise environments including local image registry setup, offline toolchain configuration, and compliance-driven infrastructure design.
- Design and Guide customers through implementation of agentic AI toolchains, including MCP server/client architecture, tool orchestration, observability integration and secure deployment patterns aligned to Docker's AI platform.
- Position Docker as a strategic and thought leadership partner, influencing long-term technology adoption and investment decisions.
- Directly deliver or assign and oversee appropriate delivery partners to execute service engagements and ensure technical objectives are met.
Enable Cross-Functional Success
- Drive alignment and decision-making across multiple stakeholders and teams without direct reporting lines.
- Translate field insights including enterprise integration patterns, IDP/SSO friction points, observability gaps, and AI deployment challenges into actionable product and services strategy, roadmap, and partner capabilities.
QUALIFICATIONS
REQUIRED
- 7+ years as a Professional Services Solution Architect, Technical Consultant, or similar role at a SaaS/infrastructure company or consulting firm.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and deploying self-hosted and air-gapped deployment architectures: local image registries, offline toolchain configuration, network-isolated Kubernetes clusters, and compliance-driven infrastructure constraints common in regulated industries.
- Enterprise integration experience across Identity Providers (Okta, Azure AD, LDAP/Active Directory) and federated identity protocols (OIDC, SAML, SSO), including RBAC design within complex, multi-tenant enterprise environments.
- Working knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its application to agentic AI toolchains including MCP server/client architecture, tool and resource orchestration, and secure containerized deployment patterns.
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML workflows, LLM deployment, and agentic AI architectures in enterprise environments with awareness of Docker's AI platform roadmap including AI agent containerization, model provenance, and AI supply chain security.
- Deep understanding of container and software supply chain security: Docker Hardened Images (DHI), Secure Supply Chain (SSC), SBOM generation, image signing and attestation, vulnerability management, and runtime governance.
- Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills; able to lead executive-level architecture conversations and influence senior stakeholders without formal authority.
- Direct experience delivering high-quality services engagements that achieve customer value while meeting revenue and ARR growth targets within a revenue organization.
- Recognition by enterprise customers as a strategic technical advisor.
BONUS
- Experience architecting AI platforms in large enterprise environments LLM deployment pipelines, model provenance, artifact signing, and secure AI supply chain patterns.
- Background enabling system integrators, consultancies, or partner ecosystems.
- Consulting experience with Fortune 500 clients in highly regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare, or government.
- Led AI security architecture engagements that addressed model provenance, artifact signing, and supply chain integrity for containerized AI workloads including secure MCP server deployment, tool and resource access controls, secrets management within agentic pipelines, and runtime isolation patterns for LLM-based applications.
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- Onboard to Docker's mission, values, and operating model.
- Deeply familiarize yourself with our product portfolio, AI platform roadmap, and strategic customers.
- Build strong partnerships with Product, Engineering, and Sales functions.
- Plug into the team's rhythm of business (standups, reviews, shadow customer engagements).
FIRST 90 DAYS
- Scope, define SOWs, delivery, and oversight of customer service engagements.
- Participate in the creation of reference architectures for key use cases..
- Participate in initiatives to build out and improve the services department's offerings.
ONE-YEAR OUTLOOK
- Successful delivery and oversight of customer service engagements.
- Contribute materially to the build-out of Docker's service offerings across AI, security, and enterprise integration practices.
- Institutionalize continuous improvement by providing field feedback including enterprise integration patterns, deployment blockers, and observability gaps to the product team.
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Compensation & Equity
EU: €119K – €170K + equity
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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.
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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
Location: Seattle, WA
Workplace: Remote
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.
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Docker is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to serve as the technical visionary and architect for our Central Operations and Systems organization — the foundational platform that powers "how Docker does Docker", which includes corporate systems, developer AI/SDLC, infrastructure, reliability, and internal systems. This is one of the most impactful individual contributor roles at Docker, responsible for defining and driving the technical strategy that enables Docker's transformation to an AI-first company and effectively enables Docker to be "Customer 0" of Docker. Your influence will impact the work of every Dockhand every day.
As Senior Principal Engineer, you will establish strategic technical plans that span the company systems/data architecture and the end-to-end employee experience, make critical architectural decisions that affect Docker's entire internal systems portfolio, and drive technical execution of cross-company initiatives that directly enable every Dockhand. You'll work at the technical intersection of AI, platform infrastructure, developer SDLC, corporate systems, and Docker products, ensuring all systems work together seamlessly to support Docker's most precious resources: our employees.
This role requires someone who combines deep technical expertise across multiple domains. Managing the breadth is both the exciting and challenging part of this role. You'll be recognized across Docker as the definitive expert on employee experience, consulted by executives on strategic technical decisions, and responsible for ensuring that every Dockhand has the right tools at the right time to do their day to day work.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Vision & Strategic Planning
- Define and own the multi-year technical vision for Docker's Central Operations and Systems group, encompassing internal AI, developer tools, infrastructure, reliability, and corporate systems.
- Establish strategic plans and objectives for major initiatives, making architectural decisions that ensure Docker's business objectives are met.
- Contribute to and drive the strategic vision in collaboration with engineering leadership, translating organizational strategy into technical roadmaps that span multiple teams and time horizons
- Identify and prioritize investments that provide maximum leverage—capabilities built once that enable rapid adoption and increase productivity across the employee base
- Develop architectural principles and standards that guide technical decisions across the Central Operations and Systems group and influence product engineering teams
- Anticipate future business needs and ensure platform architecture provides the flexibility to support Docker's evolving commercial models
Cross-Company Technical Leadership
- Lead technical vision and implementation for large cross-company programs that require coordination across all Docker teams
- Architect the Docker SDLC "Golden Path": how Dockhands build, manage and deploy systems and software, as applicable
- Drive convergence of fragmented systems across Docker—replacing product-specific implementations with shared platform capabilities
- Establish technical contracts between platform and product teams that enable independent velocity while ensuring consistency and reliability
- Lead architectural reviews for major initiatives across Docker, ensuring alignment with platform strategy and long-term maintainability
- Proactively identify and solve problems that impact critical areas of the business before they become blockers
Infrastructure & Developer Experience Architecture
- Define the infrastructure platform vision that removes infrastructure as a bottleneck to innovation—enabling teams to deploy experimental services in minutes, not weeks
- Architect standardized deployment patterns that encode best practices for security, scaling, monitoring, and reliability
- Design infrastructure that specifically supports AI and agent initiatives—rapid deployment, programmatic environment creation, consistent APIs
- Establish observability standards that provide distributed tracing, metrics, log aggregation, and error tracking out of the box for every service
- Drive cost optimization across platform infrastructure while maintaining performance and reliability standards
Technical Excellence & Influence
- Work with senior managers and directors across Docker organization to drive operations and strategy
- Mentor and develop Staff and Principal engineers, raising the technical bar across the organization
- Represent Docker's platform architecture and AI adoption externally through blog posts, conference talks, and technical community engagement
- Participate in executive-level discussions on technical strategy, providing architectural perspective on business decisions
- Drive build-vs-buy decisions for critical platform components, evaluating vendor solutions against Docker's specific requirements
- This role may require participation in an on-call rotation to provide support outside of standard business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, as needed.
QUALIFICATIONS
REQUIRED
Technical Expertise
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise across multiple domains (SDLC, AI engineering, corporate systems, etc)
- Proven track record architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users and thousands of enterprise customers
- Broad working knowledge across all platform domains with ability to make sound architectural decisions spanning multiple areas
- Expert-level understanding of API design, service architecture, and system integration patterns at scale, including in-house vs. vendor developed systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern infrastructure patterns (Kubernetes, service mesh, infrastructure-as-code)
- Knowledge of enterprise security requirements, compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and their architectural implications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Strategic & Business Impact
- Track record of establishing strategic technical plans that directly enabled business outcomes (revenue growth, cost reduction, market expansion)
- Experience translating business strategy into technical architecture and roadmaps
- Demonstrated ability to identify and prioritize investments that provide maximum platform leverage
- Understanding of SaaS business models, enterprise sales cycles, and how platform capabilities influence commercial success
- Experience making build-vs-buy decisions for critical platform components
Leadership & Influence
- Proven ability to drive large cross-company technical programs requiring coordination across multiple engineering organizations
- Experience working with VPs and executives to set and execute technical strategy
- Track record of influencing technical direction without direct authority—building consensus across teams with different priorities
- Strong communication skills with ability to present to executives, influence leadership, and drive alignment at all levels
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership
PREFERRED
- Experience at developer tools, infrastructure software, or B2B SaaS companies at significant scale
- Background with container technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, or developer productivity platforms
- Track record of successfully migrating legacy systems while maintaining business continuity
- Knowledge of Financial Operations and infrastructure cost optimization at scale
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
- External recognition as a technical leader (conference speaking, publications, open source contributions)
KEY SUCCESS METRICS
Platform Leverage & Velocity
- Product teams can launch enterprise-ready features in <2 weeks (vs. 6+ months today) by leveraging platform capabilities
- Docker teams rapidly adopt new capabilities within 2 months of release (vs. 6+ months today)
Technical Excellence
- Platform systems achieve 99.9%+ uptime for business-critical workflows
- Infrastructure platform reduces deployment time for new services from 2-4 weeks to <1 day
Organizational Impact
- Recognized across Docker as the definitive technical authority on internal architecture
- Successfully drive convergence of fragmented systems, reducing technical debt and operational burden
- Develop multiple Staff and Principal engineers who can own major platform domains
Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
Compensation & Equity
United States: $219K – $352K + equity
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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.
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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
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
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.
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We are looking for a Senior Director to lead our Information Technology Department as we rapidly scale our business. Our ideal candidate will be a strategically focused IT leader, but someone who is also not shy to roll up their sleeves to address tactical operational roadblocks, as needed. They will be technically strong and possess a keen understanding of how to leverage technology to drive impact within an organization. Experience with modern SaaS/cloud-based infrastructures is critical, including but not limited to implementing and scaling an ecosystem of applications with proactive strategies and proactive roadmaps.
The Senior Director of IT will report to the SVP of Central Operations & Systems and is responsible for building a customer-obsessed team serving Docker with technical tools. This role is responsible for growing the existing foundations for the enterprise-wide help desk services, application management, device lifecycle logistics, and working within the Central Operations and Systems team to play their part in major cross-Docker initiatives. The position will provide operational transparency through building workflows that render real-time metrics to measure the health of every service. This people manager will identify key performance indicators for IT services and team members which align with the strategic goals of Docker. As a service owner, they will develop service level agreements that target the productivity needs of every IT customer. This role is highly cross-functional in nature.
The Central Operations and Systems team owns internal platforms and systems that make up the employee experience for all Dockhands: from endpoints to infrastructure and SaaS vendors to custom tooling. We own "how Docker does Docker".
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build a strong metrics-driven, business focused IT organization and set the mission and vision of Docker’s Information Technology to ensure continual service improvement techniques, developing systems and procedures that serve internal customers.
- Contribute as a thought leader within the Central Operations & Systems leadership team.
- Assess, architect and right-size the applications footprint to ensure a connected enterprise and trusted information flow between systems and as well as into our cloud, enabling proactive decision-making across the company.
- Build and maintain relationships with other technical leaders and business executives to develop a keen understanding of business needs; ensure efficient delivery of IT services to meet those needs.
- In full alignment with company strategy, develop a multi-year strategy and roadmap for IT to anticipate and scale to support and enable a high-growth company. Inclusive of managing future technology debt challenges through partnership and raising awareness of technical dependencies.
- Demonstrated technical expertise, experience and competence in motivating the team and organization with innovative and technical advancements.
- Develop trust and collaboration within teams to drive best technical practices and timeliness of programs.
- Drive optimization and effective practices to solution and impact our internal and external customers.
- Collaborate with members of the executive team to identify ways IT can assist the company in achieving business and financial goals.
- Responsible for providing all IT productivity tools (workstations, accessories, etc.) needed by employees in a timely manner with best in class service levels.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 12+ yrs Global IT leadership experience, comfortable in a fast moving technology startup experience.
- Excellent ability to conceptualize long-term business goals and develop orderly processes to accomplish those goals.
- Demonstrated ability to formulate a high-level strategy, then convert it into a tactical plan and execute on that plan.
- Possess an AI-and-automation-first mentality, proactively develops ways to consolidate and manage systems and knowledge within Docker.
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, engineering or related field.
- Master’s degree is a plus.
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Compensation & Equity
United States: $207,550 – $296,500 + equity
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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
Location: England; Portugal; Spain; Italy; Germany
Workplace: Remote
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.
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We are looking for an experienced Partner Sales Manager to drive continued growth and success for Docker’s channel partners across Central EMEA (DACH & CEE). This role is ideal for someone who has operated in a startup or scale-up environment and enjoys building and maturing a high-performing reseller ecosystem.
You will be responsible for recruiting, enabling, and scaling solution partners and resellers, while working closely with Docker sales leadership and cross-functional teams to drive partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue. You will own a regio
RESPONSIBILITIES
Partner Strategy & Channel Execution
- Develop and execute regional reseller and channel partner plans aligned with Docker’s GTM strategy and revenue goals
- Recruit, onboard, and activate new solution partners and regional VARs
- Own partner pipeline management, including deal registration, forecasting, key account planning, and execution reviews
- Maintain regular partner cadence covering pipeline, performance, enablement needs, and growth opportunities
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Docker Sales, Marketing, Product, and Technical Account teams to align partner motions and execution
- Ensure strong alignment between direct sales teams and reseller partners to maximize coverage and deal velocity
Partner-Led Growth
- Drive net new business through reseller-led and co-sell motions
- Enable partners with the training, tools, and assets required to effectively sell and support Docker’s product portfolio
- Activate joint sales plays, regional campaigns, and partner-driven demand generation initiatives
QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven track record in building and scaling reseller or channel programs in a startup or high-growth environment
- 10+ years of enterprise and/or channel sales experience, including selling through solution partners or VARs
- Experience driving joint marketing programs with partners and generating net new pipeline
- Fluency in English; German is a strong advantage AND any other Eastern European language is nice to have (Polish, Romanian, Croatian)
- Background in software, developer tools, DevOps, or security preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Sales, Marketing, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS – ORIENTATION & FOUNDATION
- Complete onboarding across Docker’s sales motions, tools, and processes
- Learn Docker’s partner model and key partner segments (distributors, resellers, VARs, marketplaces)
- Build relationships with internal stakeholders and priority regional partners
- Develop a high-level regional reseller strategy and engagement plan
FIRST 60 DAYS – PARTNER CADENCE & PLANNING
- Establish structured engagement and joint planning with top partners
- Align on partner performance metrics, pipeline expectations, and enablement priorities
- Collaborate with Marketing on a regional partner demand-generation plan
- Align pipeline development strategies with regional sales leadership
FIRST 90 DAYS – EXECUTION & MOMENTUM
- Launch initial joint sales and marketing initiatives with reseller partners
- Drive partner enablement and define clear co-sell and deal engagement workflows
- Begin tracking early performance indicators for partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline
ONE-YEAR IMPACT
- Build durable, high-value relationships with strategic and regional reseller partners
- Drive measurable growth in partner-sourced pipeline, net new ARR, and renewals
- Expand Docker’s regional coverage and market penetration through partner-led GTM
- Continuously refine the reseller engagement model based on performance, feedback, and market trends
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Compensation & Equity
EU: €145,600– €208,000 OTE + equity
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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.
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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
Location: England; Canada; United States
Workplace: Remote
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.
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Secure Build builds and operates the infrastructure behind Docker's container builds. The team owns Docker Build Cloud and Docker Hub Automated Builds while developing the next generation of trusted build and CI capabilities. Its direction is to make Docker the trusted place CI runs: isolated execution, brokered access to secrets and networks, and verifiable evidence of what each build or test job did. The work spans Go services, container and build technology, cloud infrastructure, sandboxing and software supply-chain security, alongside the operational responsibility for production systems customers already depend on.
SCS Services builds the backend systems and product capabilities that help developers understand, secure and ship software with confidence. The team powers important parts of Docker Scout and Docker Hardened Images, including the services and workflows that turn supply-chain data into useful developer, customer and agent experiences. Its estate is deliberately polyglot, with Clojure and Go services, event-driven workflows, Kafka, legacy Datomic components and newer Spanner-backed services. It also supports the customer journey around discovering, assessing, subscribing to and managing hardened artefacts.
We are looking for one Engineering Manager to lead both teams. Together they sit at the centre of Docker's secure software supply-chain work: one creates trusted build outcomes, while the other turns build, artifact and dependency data into services and experiences used across Scout and Docker Hardened Images. This is a two-team leadership role with separate roadmaps, production responsibilities and technical domains. The teams should deliver independently, with explicit contracts and joined-up ownership where their services connect.
You will own the health, delivery and growth of both teams and make the trade-offs that keep them effective as a portfolio. You will not be expected to be the deepest expert in every language or domain. You will need enough technical breadth and current engineering judgement to engage credibly in designs, reviews and incidents across both teams, set direction with strong senior engineers, and recognise when the right answer is to create space for their expertise.
THE KIND OF PERSON WE'RE LOOKING FOR
The successful candidate leads first. They are an experienced engineering manager who can inherit two capable teams, earn trust quickly and help each become a high-performing, value-delivering part of the wider Docker organisation. They are deliberate about where they spend their attention, protect both teams from becoming the second priority, and make portfolio trade-offs visible rather than allowing urgency, proximity or the loudest stakeholder to decide.
They stay close to the technical work without trying to own every technical decision. They can hold a substantive conversation about distributed backend systems, event and data pipelines, build and CI infrastructure, trust boundaries and production operations. They are active in design and review, useful during incidents and willing to get hands-on where that moves the work forward. The balance still tilts strongly to leadership, coaching, delivery and organisational judgement.
They care about security as a product and engineering property, not only as compliance. They understand how modern attacks exploit identity, secrets, dependencies and build systems, and they can reason about the evidence customers need to trust an artefact or workflow. They lead through judgement, clarity and unblocking rather than ceremony for its own sake. Above all, they grow the engineers around them and help both teams ship outcomes developers and enterprises can rely on.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead Secure Build and SCS Services, owning delivery, team health, growth, performance and operational excellence across both.
- Turn two changing roadmaps into a coherent portfolio plan with explicit priorities, capacity and trade-offs, and create leadership coverage so neither team becomes the permanent second priority.
- Partner with Product to shape strategy and roadmaps for secure build, Docker Scout, Docker Hardened Images and the services that connect them.
- Stay close to the technical work through design and code review, incident response and selective hands-on contribution where it adds leverage.
- Ensure each team's technical direction supports product, security, reliability and customer priorities, setting it collaboratively with Staff and senior engineers while leaving clear decision ownership with them.
- Own the interfaces between the teams, including trust boundaries, contracts, data quality, versioning, operational ownership and customer-facing failure modes.
- Balance new product work with inherited systems and on-call, and invest in reliability improvements driven by recurring operational pain.
- Own engineer growth and performance, handle difficult conversations directly, hire and retain strong people and build succession depth within both teams.
- Align Product, Design, Security, DHI Content, Registry, Hub, sales, support, commercial and legal partners while shielding the teams from churn.
- Lead disciplined use of AI-assisted engineering and communicate decisions, risks and progress clearly across UK and US working hours.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, with meaningful responsibility across more than one team or distinct technical domain.
- 8+ years of professional, hands-on software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, platform or developer tooling.
- Experience leading, growing and retaining engineers at or above your own technical seniority, including teams you did not build and difficult performance conversations.
- A leader-first operating model, with current enough technical judgement to participate in design and review across unfamiliar systems without needing to be the best engineer in the room.
- Experience prioritising across competing roadmaps, operational load and stakeholder commitments, with clear mechanisms for allocating attention and capacity.
- Strong backend and distributed-systems judgement, including APIs, event-driven architectures, data stores, cloud-native infrastructure and production operations.
- Understanding of CI or build-system internals, containers and artefact workflows, plus a strong interest in software supply-chain security and trust boundaries.
- Experience leading teams that operate production infrastructure through on-call, incident response, observability, SLOs and the work required to reduce recurring operational load.
- Strong product judgement and evidence of shaping roadmaps with Product rather than only receiving requirements.
- Clear written and verbal communication, strong cross-functional influence, customer closeness and comfort leading a remote-first organisation across European and US time zones.
Helpful, but Not Required
- Experience with Go, Clojure or both, and evidence of becoming effective across a polyglot estate.
- Experience with Kafka, Spanner, Datomic or comparable event-streaming and distributed-data systems.
- Experience with OCI, BuildKit, Buildx, GitHub Actions or comparable build and CI platforms.
- Experience with sandboxing, microVMs, untrusted workload execution or multi-tenant infrastructure.
- Experience with SLSA, in-toto, SBOMs, VEX, Sigstore, cosign, provenance, signing or vulnerability scanning.
- Experience evolving legacy systems while shipping new capability for developer tools, security products, regulated customers or software-agent workflows.
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- Build relationships with every engineer and the Product partners for both teams before changing structure, process or roadmap.
- Understand Secure Build's product direction, production estate and on-call load, including Docker Build Cloud and Docker Hub Automated Builds.
- Understand the SCS Services products, customers, architecture and operational profile, and map the dependencies, trust boundaries and ownership lines between the teams.
FIRST 90 DAYS.
- Own a coherent portfolio plan with both teams and Product, including explicit capacity for roadmap, reliability and cross-team work.
- Establish a sustainable operating cadence and leadership coverage that prevents either team depending on your constant presence.
- Agree ownership and escalation paths for shared services and failures, start one material improvement in each team and make progress and risk visible.
ONE YEAR OUTLOOK
- Both teams deliver predictably against a portfolio that connects secure build, Scout and Docker Hardened Images outcomes without collapsing their distinct missions.
- Secure Build has delivered material trusted-build or secure-CI capability and reduced operational risk in its inherited production systems.
- SCS Services has delivered material customer outcomes, while both teams have sustainable on-call, clearer ownership and senior engineers leading broader work.
Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
Compensation & Equity
Canada: CA$244,550 – CA$392,150 + equity
United States: $174,900 – $282,700 + equity
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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.
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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
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
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.
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At Docker, we simplify the lives of developers 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 worldwide, Docker Desktop and Docker Hub provide unmatched simplicity, agility, and choice. Docker is a fast-growing startup that offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities to grow your career.
About the role:
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Sales Operations to join our Revenue Operations team in a critical leadership capacity. This is a player-coach role designed for a deeply technical Sales Ops expert who thrives on both strategic execution and people development. You will serve as the ultimate go-to subject matter expert for all things Sales Ops infrastructure, including architecting our territory design, segmentation models, quota models and annual planning frameworks, while simultaneously leading and scaling a high-performing team.
Initially managing a team of two, with further headcount planned as Docker grows, you will balance executive partnership with technical execution. You will run the strategic vision, coach your team to execute flawlessly, and step into the trenches yourself to solve our most complex operational challenges.
An ideal candidate brings deep Sales Operations experience in a high-growth SaaS environment, strong command of our core tooling, and a track record of leading transformational operational change. This role reports to the Senior Director of Sales Operations.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Sales Ops Architecture & Planning Execution
- Drive the end-to-end execution of core Sales Operations, translating the overarching GTM strategy into tactical territory designs and segmentation models
- Architect and build the operational models for annual and quarterly planning cycles, including territory routing (ETM), segmentation updates, and quota allocation
- Own the management, administration, and execution of quota frameworks, and assist with compensation plan design for the direct sales & GTM organization
- Take full ownership of complex operational initiatives, managing the lifecycle from scoping and business requirements through to deployment and post-launch optimization
- Own and update the Sales Rules of Engagement and account engagement models to ensure seamless, frictionless deal flow and pipeline integrity
- Own key tools within the Sales technology stack, managing vendor relationships, budgets, and roadmaps
Operational Collaboration & Tech Optimization
- Serve as the trusted daily operational partner to senior Sales leaders, proactively identifying areas for improvement and executing process enhancements
- Collaborate closely with the Senior Director of Sales Operations and GTM ops leaders (CS, SE, Channel, Renewals) to ensure Sales Ops execution aligns seamlessly with the broader revenue ecosystem
- Maximize the efficiency and roadmap of the core sales technology stack (Salesforce, Clari, Outreach, etc.) to optimize the sales cadence
- Partner with Business Systems to design, test, and deploy scalable tech solutions
Team Leadership
- Directly manage, mentor, and develop a team of Sales Operations professionals (initially 2 direct reports)
- Establish team operating cadences, manage workload capacity, and instill a culture of high ownership, precision, and operational excellence
- Coach your team on advanced problem-solving, data integrity, and stakeholder communication, acting as a force multiplier for their career growth
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 6+ years of experience in Sales Operations, ideally within a high-growth SaaS or software company
- 2+ years of people management or team leadership experience, with a demonstrated track record of coaching and developing team members
- Hands-on experience of core Sales Ops planning, specifically territory routing, Enterprise Territory Management (ETM), segmentation modeling, and quota allocation
- Proven project management skills, with experience owning complex operational initiatives across their entire lifecycle (from business requirements to post-launch optimization)
- Technical expertise with core sales technology infrastructure, including Salesforce, Clari, Outreach, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
- Strong analytical and financial acumen required to manage vendor budgets, software roadmaps, and data modeling tasks
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to advise senior sales leadership and collaborate with cross-functional GTM operations peers
- Highly organized with an eye for data integrity, process precision, and documentation
WHAT TO EXPECT
First 30 days:
- Immerse yourself in Docker’s direct sales motion, existing territory models, current sales technology stack and existing Sales Ops processes
- Assume direct management of your team, establishing regular 1-on-1 cadences to understand their current workloads, skills, and professional development goals
- Build strong baseline relationships with your core sales leadership partners, and GTM ops leaders (CS, SE, Channel, Renewals)
- Review current processes, systems, and metrics to form an independent point of view on highest-impact opportunities
FIRST 60 DAYS:
- Establish your position as the go-to expert for sales leadership regarding tactical operational questions, territory updates, and cadence execution
- Take full ownership of the sales tech stack, including active vendor relationships, roadmaps, and budget lines
- Optimize team capacity by refining operating cadences and shifting immediate execution workloads to your team, stepping in to coach them through complex roadblocks
- Partner with Business Systems to get involved in open projects
FIRST 90 DAYS:
- Drive the preparation and operational execution for the upcoming quarterly or annual sales planning cycles (territories, quotas, segmentation)
- Achieve full oversight of the Sales Ops team's output, ensuring high-quality, precise delivery across all direct sales workstreams
- Be recognized across Docker as both an indispensable technical anchor for Sales Operations and an impactful manager developing the next generation of operational talent
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Compensation & Equity
United States: $128.1K – $200K + equity
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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.
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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
Location: Canada; United States
Workplace: Remote
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.
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We are seeking a highly consultative Principal Solutions Architect to support our most important customers. This role is a critical technical position, spanning both product development and pre and post sales customer motions.
You will act as a trusted technical lead and thought leader, partnering closely with Account Executives, Solutions Engineers, Post Sales, and Product teams to drive measurable business and technical value through
- High priority customer technical leadership
- Docker field technical leadership
This role reports to the Director of Solutions Architecture and operates at the intersection of technical depth, business acumen, and thought leadership.
RESPONSIBILITIES
High priority customer technical leadership
- Work with Docker’s most important customers and cross functional Docker teams to accelerate the customer’s container and AI journeys, focusing on developer workflows
- Engage with customer teams and cross functional Docker teams to gather customer’s technical/business goals and challenges related to their container and AI journey.
- Create and manage engagement plans that span existing products and new Docker offerings to achieve critical business goals.
- Oversee “design partner” rapid prototyping engagements with Docker engineering and customer teams to validate customer-product fit for new use cases
- Work with Docker teams to create/manage/deliver custom demos and content aligned to customer use cases.
- Deliver high-impact enablement and best practices content to customer audiences from developer to C level.
- Ability to travel up to 50% domestically and internationally as a senior representative of Docker to prospective clients, customers, and technical alliance partners.
Docker field technical leadership (regional/area of responsibility)
- Be a thought leader for a particular area of responsibility both internal and external to Docker, working with fellow Dockhands to create/manage/deliver content
- Gather field feedback from customer teams and Docker pre and post sales teams
- Coordinate with Field CTO and other Solutions Architects to prioritize/contextualize/correlate field requests into a cohesive set of prioritized requests to the product/engineering teams.
- Work directly with Docker product/engineering teams on workflows and feature alignment to customer use cases prioritized by revenue impact.
- Be customer zero for new functionality produced by Docker product/engineering teams
- Give input on internal technical enablement and customer enablement needs, and review enablement content
- Assist the sales enablement team with internal technical enablement for new products and services.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solution Architect in complex enterprise environments.
- Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in managing customer relationships at the technical and business level.
- Experience presenting solutions and demonstrations to small and large audiences, virtually and in person.
- Experience interfacing with internal product/software teams, including technical support, product, and engineering, to enhance documentation, enablement, and product features to improve customer experience and enablement.
- Experience developing application code, and a clear understanding of the challenges developers experience on a daily basis.
- Ability to solve technical problems and translate customer experience to actionable feedback for engineering.
- Experience developing collateral to assist customers with best-practice adoption.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containers, DevOps, and modern application architectures.
- Experience with Docker, container ecosystems, or adjacent technologies strongly preferred.
- Development, Agentic AI dev, Software Development Lifecycle and/or Software Supply Chain Security experience strongly preferred.
- Must be fluent in English
- Willingness to travel up to 50% domestically and internationally as a senior representative of Docker to prospective clients, customers, and technical alliance partners.
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- You will be welcomed with a first-in-class onboarding experience that includes equipment setup, a sweet swag package, and a collaborative training program
- You will learn how to navigate through award-winning sales tools such as; Salesforce, Outreach, Sigma, and Opine.
- Actively engage with senior stakeholders, and manage relationships with clients
- You will work closely with your peers and shadow customer meetings to develop strategies to advocate for our customers.
- At the end of your first month, you will have a proficient grasp of the tools and activities necessary to be successful in your role.
FIRST 60 DAYS
- You will be laser-focused on supporting the sales and customer success teams during your second month.
- You will have connected with all of your team members.
- You will gain in-depth knowledge of Docker’s products and how they impact our customers.
- You will have an advanced understanding of tools, activities, and best practices to be successful in your role.
FIRST 90 DAYS
- In month three, you will be confident in your craft and ready to immerse yourself in our customer’s business needs fully.
- You will continue efforts to improve messaging, processes, and activities.
- Educate our clients about our product roadmap and undertake product training for users
- You will be ready to operate independently at full speed.
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Compensation & Equity
Canada: CA$314,300 – CA$449,00 OTE + equity
United States:$217,000 – $310,000 OTE + equity
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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.
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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
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
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.
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Nowhere is that shift harder, or higher stakes, than in government. Federal agencies are being asked to adopt AI quickly while proving that every model, every artifact, and every build step is governed, attested, and auditable. We are hiring a Principal Sales Engineer to own the technical side of that conversation across the US Public Sector.
This is a single seat covering both the Department of War and Federal Civilian. You will be the technical face of Docker to agency CIOs, CISOs, program offices, and the platform teams who actually run the pipelines, partnering with our Federal Account Executives to shape requirements early and win competitive technical evaluations.
You will act as a trusted technical advisor and champion owner, partnering closely with Account Executives, Post Sales, Product, and our partner and reseller ecosystem to drive measurable mission and technical value through:
- Technical Selling and Deal Shaping
- AI Governance and Secure Software Supply Chain Thought Leadership
- Federal Compliance and Accreditation Fluency
- Technical Champion Ownership
- Customer and Internal Advocacy
- Competitive and Strategic Selling
This role reports to the Director of Solutions Engineering and operates at the intersection of technical depth, mission understanding, and competitive selling discipline.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Selling and Deal Shaping
- Lead deep technical discovery across program offices, platform and DevSecOps teams, security organizations, and AI/ML groups to understand:
- AI governance and responsible AI requirements, including agency guidance and NIST AI Risk Management Framework alignment
- Software supply chain risk posture and secure software development expectations
- Accreditation and authorization constraints, including ATO timelines and continuous authorization goals
- Air-gapped, classified, and disconnected environment requirements
- Shape technical requirements early in the acquisition cycle so that agency evaluation criteria reflect Docker's differentiated value in AI governance, container and artifact security, and software supply chain integrity.
- Design, position, and execute structured PoCs and PoVs focused on:
- Policy enforcement and policy-as-code
- Image and artifact integrity, provenance, and attestation
- SBOM generation and visibility
- Hardened and minimal base images for regulated workloads, including FIPS and STIG-aligned variants
- AI workload governance controls and sandboxed agentic development
- Secure build pipelines in constrained and disconnected networks
- Define clear success criteria, evaluation frameworks, and executive-ready value summaries that a program executive can carry into a funding conversation.
- Influence decision-making through demos, workshops, architecture reviews, technical exchange meetings, and executive briefings.
- Translate complex AI security and governance capabilities into mission outcomes for CIOs, CISOs, Chief Data and AI Officers, and program leadership.
AI Governance and Secure Software Supply Chain Thought Leadership
- Establish credibility as a trusted advisor on:
- Responsible AI development practices in government
- Secure AI model and agent lifecycle management
- Software supply chain integrity and provenance
- Container and artifact security in accredited environments
- DevSecOps practice in federal platform organizations
- Guide agency teams in implementing governance controls across AI-enabled SDLC workflows, including identity and access governance for AI workloads and policy-as-code enforcement.
- Represent Docker publicly in the federal community through industry days, agency technical exchange meetings, conference sessions, webinars, and written content such as reference architectures and whitepapers.
Federal Compliance and Accreditation Fluency
- Serve as the team's subject matter expert on how Docker's products fit inside federal security and accreditation frameworks, and on what evidence agency assessors and authorizing officials will ask for.
- Position and explain the compliance artifacts Docker Hardened Images produce, including FIPS image variants built on FIPS 140 validated cryptographic modules, STIG scan results aligned to the DoW General Purpose Operating System SRG, and the signed attestations that accompany both. Help customers understand precisely what those artifacts do and do not establish for their own authorization package.
- Work fluently with the language and constraints of FedRAMP, NIST 800-53 and 800-171, the NIST Secure Software Development Framework, DISA STIGs and SRGs, DoW Impact Levels, and continuous ATO models.
- Support responses to RFIs, RFPs, security questionnaires, and technical evaluation criteria, partnering with Sales, Legal, Product, and Security.
- Advise on deployment patterns for on-premises, air-gapped, and government cloud environments, and work with partners and system integrators where they carry the delivery.
Technical Champion Ownership
- Build, own, and expand relationships with technical champions across security, platform, DevSecOps, and AI teams inside agencies and their supporting integrators.
- Leverage champion relationships to influence broader buying groups, shape requirements, and uncover expansion across programs and sub-agencies.
- Maintain engagement beyond initial award so outcomes are realized and renewals and expansions are earned.
Customer and Internal Advocacy
- Advocate for federal customer needs with Product and Engineering, providing clear, actionable feedback informed by field experience. You will be the primary voice inside Docker for what the public sector actually needs.
- Coordinate with Post Sales and Support to ensure continuity across the customer lifecycle, including in environments where Docker staff have limited access.
- Develop reusable technical assets (workshops, demos, reference architectures, compliance briefings, enablement content) that scale across agencies and across the wider Solutions Engineering team.
Competitive and Strategic Selling
- Actively support competitive motions, identifying differentiation and influencing evaluation criteria throughout the acquisition cycle.
- Partner with Account Executives, channel partners, and system integrators to develop technical win strategies for strategic federal programs.
- Support the technical side of contract vehicle and partner-led motions where Docker is sold through a reseller or integrator.
QUALIFICATIONS
REQUIRED
- 8+ years in technical pre-sales as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solutions Architect, selling infrastructure software, developer tools, or security products into complex enterprise or government accounts.
- 3+ years selling into US Federal, covering DoW, Federal Civilian, or both, with a demonstrable record of technical wins inside federal acquisition cycles.
- Working knowledge of federal security and accreditation frameworks: FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, DISA STIGs, DoW Impact Levels, and the ATO process.
- Strong experience running competitive PoCs and PoVs with clearly defined success and exit criteria.
- Solid understanding of containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Linux, and modern application architectures, plus the major cloud platforms including their government regions.
- Ability to engage credibly with both senior government stakeholders and the engineers who will use the product.
- Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills, including public speaking to technical government audiences.
- US citizenship. Many of the agency environments and facilities this role supports require it for access.
- Willingness to travel to agency sites, industry days, and partner events, up to 25%.
PREFERRED
- An active US security clearance. TS/SCI preferred. Docker does not sponsor personnel security clearances.
- Experience with Docker specifically, or adjacent container and supply chain security ecosystems.
- Experience with software supply chain security, SBOM tooling, artifact signing and attestation, or hardened image programs.
- Experience with AI governance, secure AI or agentic development workflows, or MLOps in a regulated setting.
- Experience selling through or alongside federal system integrators, resellers, and contract vehicles.
- Prior military, civil service, or government contractor experience.
- Experience supporting air-gapped or classified deployments.
- Based in the Washington DC metro area.
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- You will be welcomed with a first-in-class onboarding experience that includes equipment setup, a swag package, and a collaborative training program with an onboarding peer.
- You will learn to navigate our sales tools: Salesforce, Opine, Sigma, and Docker itself.
- You will meet your Account Executives, map the account and program landscape, and read into the in-flight federal opportunities.
- At the end of your first month you will have a proficient grasp of the tools and activities necessary to be successful in the role.
FIRST 60 DAYS
- You will be actively supporting live federal opportunities, running discovery and demos alongside your AEs.
- You will have connected with every member of the Solutions Engineering team and with the Product owners for the areas most relevant to the public sector.
- You will have a working point of view on where Docker fits in the accreditation posture of your top agencies, and where the gaps are.
FIRST 90 DAYS
- You will be running PoCs independently, with defined success criteria and executive-ready summaries.
- You will have produced at least one reusable public sector asset, such as a reference architecture, demo, or compliance-focused briefing.
- You will be operating independently at full speed and will be the recognized technical authority for Docker in the US Public Sector.
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Compensation & Equity
United States: $217,000 - $310,000 OTE + equity
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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.
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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
Location: England; United States
Workplace: Remote
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.
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The Developer Experience team builds the backend systems and product capabilities that help developers understand, secure and ship software with confidence. The team powers important parts of Docker Scout, Docker Hardened Images and the workflows that turn supply-chain data into useful developer experiences.
Our systems are deliberately polyglot. Today that includes Clojure and Go services, event-driven workflows, Kafka, legacy Datomic components and newer Spanner-backed services. We will keep evolving the stack as the product and business change. We are looking for an adaptable backend engineer who can become effective in an unfamiliar codebase, choose technology pragmatically and help other engineers do the same. Clojure experience is useful, but it is not a requirement and this is not a Clojure-specialist role.
We make extensive use of AI-assisted engineering tools. We expect engineers to use them thoughtfully, validate their output and remain accountable for the quality, security and operability of what ships. At Staff level, you will also help the team turn good individual practice into repeatable workflows, controls and shared standards.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead ambiguous, cross-team work from problem definition through measurable outcomes. You will remain hands-on in code while shaping architecture, raising operational standards and creating enough clarity for several engineers and partner teams to move quickly. Work may span developer-facing features, build and artefact workflows, data and event pipelines, platform evolution and integrations with Docker's build and security systems.
SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE LOOKS LIKE
You will succeed by finding the highest-leverage problem, creating momentum before every detail is known and bringing people with you. Within your first year, teams should be delivering more confidently because you have made system boundaries clearer, reduced operational risk, connected technical choices to customer outcomes and helped senior engineers take on larger work.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- 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 without waiting for formal authority.
- Make pragmatic recommendations about when to retain, evolve or replace existing components, including the continued reduction of legacy Datomic dependencies.
- Partner with Product, Design, Security and other engineering teams to connect technical investment to developer and business outcomes.
- Improve observability, incident readiness, performance and service ownership across the Developer Experience estate.
- Improve engineering leverage through appropriate automation, AI-assisted workflows and controls that preserve human accountability.
- Mentor senior engineers, raise the quality of design and code reviews and create reusable patterns that multiply the team.
- Stay hands-on through implementation, debugging and the team's paid on-call rotation.
- Communicate decisions and trade-offs clearly in a remote, async-first environment.
QUALIFICATIONS
REQUIRED
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated 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, with evidence of becoming effective in unfamiliar languages and codebases.
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, relational or distributed databases and cloud-native infrastructure.
- A track record of leading complex initiatives that crossed team or organisational boundaries.
- Strong technical and product judgement, including the ability to explain constraints, alternatives, customer outcomes and business trade-offs.
- Evidence of influencing without authority and improving the effectiveness of other experienced engineers.
- An operational mindset that treats observability, resilience, incident response and on-call ownership as part of engineering.
- Comfort using AI-assisted engineering tools critically while retaining ownership of the result.
- Clear written and spoken communication suited to a remote, async-first company.
HELPFUL, BUT NOT REQUIRED
- Production experience with Go, Clojure or both.
- Experience with Spanner, Datomic, Kafka or other distributed data and streaming platforms.
- Experience with build systems, containers, artefact workflows or developer tooling.
- Experience evolving a platform, database or language strategy without disrupting product delivery.
- Experience building security or software supply-chain products.
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- Build context on Developer Experience products, customers, architecture and current priorities.
- Pair across Clojure, Go, Datomic and Spanner-backed systems and ship a useful production change.
- Understand the operational profile of the team's services, including on-call and recurring failure modes.
- Build working relationships with Product, Design, Security and adjacent engineering teams.
- Learn the team's AI-assisted engineering practices and identify where shared controls or workflows would improve them.
FIRST 90 DAYS
- Lead the technical framing and delivery plan for one significant team or cross-team problem.
- Contribute production code in the parts of the stack needed to move that work forward.
- Identify and begin addressing a material reliability, observability, data or architectural weakness.
- Establish a mentoring and design-review cadence that helps other engineers own larger decisions.
ONE YEAR OUTLOOK (FIRST YEAR)
- Be a trusted technical leader for Developer Experience and a sought-after partner across Docker.
- Deliver at least one material product or platform outcome spanning multiple teams or systems.
- Improve the reliability, clarity and delivery speed of the backend and data estate.
- Shape pragmatic evolution across Clojure, Go, Datomic, Spanner and future technologies without turning technology choice into the goal.
- Grow other senior engineers into broader ownership and reduce the number of decisions that depend on a small set of people.
Docker considers sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
Compensation & Equity
EU: €110,500 – €181,500+ equity
United States: $170,350 – $275,550 + equity
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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.
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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
Location: England; United States
Workplace: Remote
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.
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The Secure Build team builds and operates the infrastructure behind Docker's container builds. The team owns Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds while developing the next generation of trusted build and CI capabilities.
Software is being changed faster than ever, but CI remains a bottleneck and a major trust boundary. Developers and software agents need to run build and test work quickly without exposing secrets, losing local-to-cloud parity or accepting an unverifiable result. Our direction is to make Docker the trusted place CI runs and turn that constraint into an accelerator.
The technical work spans Go services, container and build technology, cloud infrastructure, isolated execution and software supply-chain security. It also requires disciplined operation of the production systems customers rely on today. Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds will need targeted reliability and operational improvements while useful capabilities evolve towards a coherent Secure Build platform.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will turn these problems into practical product and technical outcomes. You will own substantial work from discovery and design through production, make sound security and reliability trade-offs, and stay close to the experience of developers and the agents they delegate work to.
We make extensive use of AI-assisted engineering tools. We expect engineers to use them thoughtfully, validate their output and remain accountable for the quality and security of what ships.
SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE LOOKS LIKE
You will succeed by becoming an end-to-end owner for secure, reliable build infrastructure. Within your first year, you should have delivered a material secure-build or CI capability, reduced operational risk in Docker Build Cloud or Auto Builds, and become a trusted partner to the teams and customers that consume the platform.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Turn developer, agent and security problems into clear requirements, staged technical decisions and measurable outcomes.
- Design, build and operate Go services and APIs that power Docker's build and secure-CI infrastructure.
- Develop isolation, identity, policy, provenance, attestation and signing capabilities for trusted build and test jobs.
- Work with container, OCI, BuildKit, cloud and isolated-execution technologies to deliver secure and reproducible workflows.
- Own features from technical design through rollout, observability, incident response and ongoing maintenance.
- Keep Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds reliable, make targeted improvements that reduce operational load, and help their capabilities evolve towards the wider Secure Build direction.
- Make practical security trade-offs and use threat modelling to guide designs without blocking delivery.
- Design for a clear developer experience, including workflows initiated or consumed by software agents.
- Partner with Product, Security, Developer Experience, Registry and other platform teams on end-to-end customer workflows.
- Participate in the team's paid on-call rotation and drive improvements from incidents and recurring operational work.
- Communicate decisions, risks and progress clearly in a remote, async-first environment.
QUALIFICATIONS
REQUIRED
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong backend engineering experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
- Production experience with Go and the ability to write, test, review and debug maintainable Go services.
- Experience with containers and build or CI systems, such as OCI, BuildKit, Buildx, GitHub Actions or comparable platforms.
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and a major cloud platform.
- A strong operational mindset covering observability, reliability, incident response and on-call ownership.
- Evidence of taking a feature or service from an ambiguous problem through production operation and measurable results.
- Working knowledge of security boundaries, identity, secrets and common software supply-chain risks.
- A strong product mindset and care for developer workflows, including experiences used by software agents.
- Clear written and spoken communication suited to a remote, async-first company.
HELPFUL, BUT NOT REQUIRED
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with SLSA, in-toto, SBOM, VEX, Sigstore, cosign, provenance or artefact signing.
- Experience with sandboxing, microVMs, untrusted workload execution or multi-tenant infrastructure.
- Experience building hosted CI runners, remote builders or developer-platform infrastructure.
- Experience with agentic development workflows or building systems used programmatically by software agents.
- Experience evolving a legacy production system while delivering new capabilities.
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- Build context on Docker Build Cloud, Auto Builds and the Secure Build product and technical direction.
- Pair with the Secure Build team on core services, deployments and operational practices.
- Ship a useful production change and take part in an operational review or incident-learning session.
- Understand the secure-CI threat model and build relationships with DHI, Registry and Developer Experience.
FIRST 90 DAYS
- Own a secure-build feature or reliability improvement from problem definition through production.
- Contribute materially to the secure-CI architecture, including isolation, identity, policy or signed evidence.
- Deliver an observable improvement to the reliability or operability of an existing build service.
- Demonstrate strong product judgement across developer and agent workflows.
ONE YEAR OUTLOOK (FIRST YEAR)
- Be a trusted senior technical owner on the Secure Build team.
- Deliver a material secure-CI or trusted-build capability used by customers or internal product teams.
- Improve the reliability and maintainability of Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds while helping their useful capabilities converge with the wider platform.
- Contribute to the team's architecture for isolated execution, brokered access and verifiable build outcomes.
- Help establish strong product, design, review and operational practices as the team grows.
Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
Compensation & Equity
EU: €94,040 – €155,650+ equity
United States: $160,900 – $260,700 + equity
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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
Location: London, UK; United States
Workplace: Remote
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.
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The Docker Sandboxes team is building the runtime that lets AI coding agents run safely on a developer's machine: disposable, isolated microVM sandboxes that each get their own Docker daemon, filesystem, and network.
This is the core of Docker's sbx product: developers can give an agent the autonomy it needs to get real work done without it ever touching the host, and tear the whole environment down when it's finished.
The successful candidate is a technical, product-minded engineer with deep experience building secure, isolated runtime environments (sandboxes, containers, or VMs) and a track record of shipping and owning that kind of infrastructure in production at scale. They think naturally about isolation and security boundaries, understand the tradeoffs involved in running untrusted or semi-trusted workloads safely, and can reason confidently about a system that spans multiple surface areas.
They can drive clarity and consensus on hard, ambiguous problems that cross team and component boundaries, raise the bar for engineering quality wherever they work, thrive in a remote-first environment, communicate clearly across time zones, work with our users, while bringing curiosity and craftsmanship to hard problems.
Please note: this role is currently prioritizing candidates currently located in the Eastern time zone (US or Canada), or in the EU.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design, develop, and lead improvements to the sandboxes product across agent integration, tool permissions, and developer-facing workflows.
- Investigate and resolve correctness, performance, and stability issues in the agent integration layer across macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- Drive the reliability and performance of sandbox creation, session management, and teardown for AI agent workloads.
- Collaborate with peers, Product, and adjacent teams to evolve the architecture as requirements grow.
- Mentor engineers on the team and set the bar in design reviews and code reviews.
- Engage with the open source and agentic development community around sandboxing, MCP, and related ecosystems.
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to critical stability issues affecting users.
- Document your work clearly and share knowledge with the rest of the team.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience building developer tools, desktop applications, or runtime infrastructure used directly by developers.
- Familiarity with the agentic software development ecosystem: how coding agents work and how tools like Claude Code, Codex, or similar agents interact with their environment.
- Ability to reason about isolation and security boundaries: what a sandbox should and shouldn't expose, and how to make safe defaults obvious to users.
- Experience driving architecture and technical strategy across multiple engineers or teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy in a remote-first environment.
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- Build an understanding of our codebase.
- Meet the people on your team and those adjacent to it.
- Build an understanding of the products we are shipping and our near-term technical priorities.
- Deliver small fixes or improvements.
FIRST 90 DAYS
- Lead the design and development of a significant improvement or feature of the local sandboxes stack.
- Engage with our open source project and the relevant upstream communities.
- Shape the team's technical direction, and drive architecture discussions.
ONE YEAR OUTLOOK (FIRST YEAR)
- Deliver measurable improvements to the correctness and performance of sandboxes.
- Become a recognized technical owner of key parts of the codebase and a go-to technical leader for the local runtime.
- Help us define the longer-term technical strategy for the filesystem layer in a way that fits with Product and Business goals, and rally the team behind it.
Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
Compensation & Equity
United States: $160,900 – $260,700 + equity
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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
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
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.
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The Senior Product & Commercial Counsel will report to Docker's Head of Legal. This is a hybrid role at the intersection of product counseling and commercial negotiation. You will serve as the primary legal partner to Docker's Product Management and Engineering teams across the full product lifecycle, from concept and design through launch, monetization, and end of life, while also assisting with negotiating the commercial provisions that bring those products to market. Your subject matter depth in open source software licensing and cloud services will directly impact how Docker builds, licenses, and delivers its products to millions of developers and thousands of enterprise customers worldwide.
Your work will be instrumental in helping the Company reach its growth objectives while protecting its intellectual property and managing product and licensing risk. This position will be a core member of the extended Legal team, working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, GRC, Sales, and Deal Desk, with exposure to Docker's senior executives and the opportunity to grow beyond the initial responsibilities and role based on expanding company needs.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Primary function will be to serve as embedded product counsel to Docker's Product Managers and Engineering teams, providing pragmatic, business-oriented advice on new products, features, pricing and packaging changes, Early Access and beta programs, and end-of-life decisions.
- Advise on open source software matters, including license analysis and compatibility (Apache, MIT, BSD, GPL, LGPL, AGPL, and source-available licenses), inbound and outbound OSS usage, contribution and CLA policies, and compliance obligations across Docker's products and distribution channels.
- Secondary function as needed, draft and maintain Docker's product-facing legal terms, including service-specific terms, subscription and licensing agreements, Early Access and beta terms, fair use and acceptable use policies, and documentation supporting new monetization models.
- Structure and negotiate commercial provisions in customer and partner agreements relating to product licensing, cloud services, hybrid on-premise and SaaS deployments, IP ownership, indemnification, warranties, and support commitments, in partnership with Sales and Deal Desk.
- Counsel on AI-enabled product features, including training data provenance, output ownership, third-party model licensing, and evolving AI regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with GRC on the intersection of product design and regulatory obligations, including software supply chain security expectations and emerging regimes such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act.
- Support IP strategy, including trademark usage guidelines, brand protection in product and marketing contexts, and coordination with outside counsel on IP matters.
- Monitor and analyze legal and regulatory developments affecting developer tools, open source, cloud services, and AI, advising the organization on necessary updates and adjustments.
- Help build scalable playbooks, templates, and self-service resources that allow Product and GTM teams to move quickly within well-defined guardrails.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar.
- 6+ years of relevant legal experience, with a meaningful portion in-house at a software, cloud, or developer tools company; a combination of law firm and in-house experience is ideal.
- Deep familiarity with open source software licensing, including copyleft and permissive license regimes, license compatibility analysis, and OSS program governance.
- Hands-on experience drafting and negotiating SaaS, software licensing, and cloud services agreements, including enterprise customer negotiations of IP, indemnity, and liability provisions.
- Working technical fluency with developer software concepts such as virtual containers, registries, CI/CD, APIs, and software supply chain security; direct familiarity with Docker's products or comparable developer platforms is a strong plus.
- Understanding of AI and LLM legal issues, including model licensing, training data, and applicable regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act.
- AI-Native work capability.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance for Product Managers and Engineers.
- Sound, risk-calibrated judgment and a bias toward practical solutions that enable the business.
- Proven ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and to manage competing priorities independently.
- Ability to collaborate with diverse teams and build strong working relationships.
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- Meet with the Head of Legal to understand Docker's product, licensing, and IP vision.
- Read Docker's product terms, subscription agreements, and OSS policies.
- Read Docker's Legal, Products, and security-related Notion pages.
- Become familiar with Docker's product portfolio, licensing models, and distribution channels.
- Forge relationships with Docker's Product Management, Engineering, GRC, Deal Desk, and Sales teams.
- Begin reviewing product feature launches and customer requests for product-related commercial terms.
FIRST 90 DAYS
- Take ownership of the legal review process for new product and feature launches.
- Establish a formalized intake and review cadence with Product Management for roadmap items with legal implications.
- Deliver a fact and data driven assessment of Docker's product terms and OSS compliance posture with a 6 month and 12 month improvement roadmap.
- Lead the negotiation of product and licensing provisions in active customer and partner deals as assigned by the Head of Legal.
- Collaborate with Docker counsel on customer contractual requests relating to licensing, IP, and cloud services and provide feedback.
- Become familiar with Docker's Compliance program and controls.
FIRST YEAR
- You have maintained an appropriate meeting cadence with Docker's Product Management, Engineering, GRC, Deal Desk, and Sales teams.
- You have provided a monthly update report to the Head of Legal for eStaff updates.
- You have built and deployed playbooks and templates that streamline product legal review and commercial negotiations to meet the demands of domestic and international growth.
- You have built the brand of the product legal function as a trusted partner, industry leader, and facilitator of Docker's growth and customer satisfaction.
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Compensation & Equity
United States: $178,500– $255,000 + equity
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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
Location: Canada; United States
Workplace: Remote
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.
_______________________________________________________________________
We are seeking a highly consultative Principal Solutions Architect to support our most important customers. This role is a critical technical position, spanning both product development and pre and post sales customer motions.
You will act as a trusted technical lead and thought leader, partnering closely with Account Executives, Solutions Engineers, Post Sales, and Product teams to drive measurable business and technical value through
- High priority customer technical leadership
- Docker field technical leadership
This role reports to the Director of Solutions Architecture and operates at the intersection of technical depth, business acumen, and thought leadership.
RESPONSIBILITIES
High priority customer technical leadership
- Work with Docker’s most important customers and cross functional Docker teams to accelerate the customer’s container and AI journeys, focusing on developer workflows
- Engage with customer teams and cross functional Docker teams to gather customer’s technical/business goals and challenges related to their container and AI journey.
- Create and manage engagement plans that span existing products and new Docker offerings to achieve critical business goals.
- Oversee “design partner” rapid prototyping engagements with Docker engineering and customer teams to validate customer-product fit for new use cases
- Work with Docker teams to create/manage/deliver custom demos and content aligned to customer use cases.
- Deliver high-impact enablement and best practices content to customer audiences from developer to C level.
- Ability to travel up to 50% domestically and internationally as a senior representative of Docker to prospective clients, customers, and technical alliance partners.
Docker field technical leadership (regional/area of responsibility)
- Be a thought leader for a particular area of responsibility both internal and external to Docker, working with fellow Dockhands to create/manage/deliver content
- Gather field feedback from customer teams and Docker pre and post sales teams
- Coordinate with Field CTO and other Solutions Architects to prioritize/contextualize/correlate field requests into a cohesive set of prioritized requests to the product/engineering teams.
- Work directly with Docker product/engineering teams on workflows and feature alignment to customer use cases prioritized by revenue impact.
- Be customer zero for new functionality produced by Docker product/engineering teams
- Give input on internal technical enablement and customer enablement needs, and review enablement content
- Assist the sales enablement team with internal technical enablement for new products and services.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solution Architect in complex enterprise environments.
- Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in managing customer relationships at the technical and business level.
- Experience presenting solutions and demonstrations to small and large audiences, virtually and in person.
- Experience interfacing with internal product/software teams, including technical support, product, and engineering, to enhance documentation, enablement, and product features to improve customer experience and enablement.
- Experience developing application code, and a clear understanding of the challenges developers experience on a daily basis.
- Ability to solve technical problems and translate customer experience to actionable feedback for engineering.
- Experience developing collateral to assist customers with best-practice adoption.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containers, DevOps, and modern application architectures.
- Experience with Docker, container ecosystems, or adjacent technologies strongly preferred.
- Development, Agentic AI dev, Software Development Lifecycle and/or Software Supply Chain Security experience strongly preferred.
- Must be fluent in English
- Willingness to travel up to 50% domestically and internationally as a senior representative of Docker to prospective clients, customers, and technical alliance partners.
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- You will be welcomed with a first-in-class onboarding experience that includes equipment setup, a sweet swag package, and a collaborative training program
- You will learn how to navigate through award-winning sales tools such as; Salesforce, Outreach, Sigma, and Opine.
- Actively engage with senior stakeholders, and manage relationships with clients
- You will work closely with your peers and shadow customer meetings to develop strategies to advocate for our customers.
- At the end of your first month, you will have a proficient grasp of the tools and activities necessary to be successful in your role.
FIRST 60 DAYS
- You will be laser-focused on supporting the sales and customer success teams during your second month.
- You will have connected with all of your team members.
- You will gain in-depth knowledge of Docker’s products and how they impact our customers.
- You will have an advanced understanding of tools, activities, and best practices to be successful in your role.
FIRST 90 DAYS
- In month three, you will be confident in your craft and ready to immerse yourself in our customer’s business needs fully.
- You will continue efforts to improve messaging, processes, and activities.
- Educate our clients about our product roadmap and undertake product training for users
- You will be ready to operate independently at full speed.
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Compensation & Equity
Canada: CA$314,300 – CA$449,00 OTE + equity
United States:$217,000 – $310,000 OTE + 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
Location: San Francisco Bay Area; Seattle, WA
Workplace: Remote
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.
_______________________________________________________________________
As a Staff Software Engineer in Networking, you will set the technical direction for the networking stack behind Docker's Sandboxes platform and make architectural decisions that ripple across Docker's product portfolio. Your work will directly enable Docker's expansion into AI and security products.
This role calls for someone who:
1. Combines deep technical expertise in infrastructure at scale, virtual networking, service mesh, orchestration, and integration across the broader infrastructure stack;
2. Communicates and collaborates well, thinks critically, and turns ideas into working systems
3. Adapts to ambiguity and brings clarity
4. Provides technical leadership to a small team of engineers, driving customer delight through the solutions they deliver
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design, implement, and operate core networking services that power Docker's Sandboxes platform across local laptops and public cloud environments
- Build scalable networking infrastructure for microVM orchestration, workload scheduling, and lifecycle management
- Develop high-performance networking data- and control-plane components for multi-tenant agentic workloads
- Ensure network reliability, observability, and performance across Docker's Sandbox infrastructure
- Collaborate with product, platform, and security teams to deliver customer-focused capabilities
- Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, and design documents
- Contribute to automation and CI/CD improvements across the deployment pipeline
- Debug and resolve production issues across distributed systems in local and public-cloud environments
- Take part in on-call rotation for your team; respond to incidents and drive continuous improvement of system reliability and availability
QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of experience building and leading large-scale cloud or distributed systems, with a focus on networking foundations
- Track record of driving technical consensus and delivering high-quality infrastructure software at scale, on tight timelines
- Experience with microservices architecture, container networking, service mesh, policy enforcement, and container orchestration
- Experience with kernel and user-space networking technologies, including Linux networking, OVS/OVN, DPDK, and eBPF
- Experience designing and operating highly available, secure, and observable networking infrastructure
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) and related scalability patterns
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed environments
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across remote, cross-functional teams
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- Onboard, integrate with our Sandbox infrastructure teams, and build context on Docker's Sandbox vision
- Deep-dive into Sandbox architecture for local and public-cloud infrastructure, with a focus on driving simple, common foundational primitives usable across both environments
- Identify the highest-leverage opportunities in the current architecture, along with strategic and tactical execution risks
FIRST 90 DAYS
- Develop a technical roadmap to address the challenges identified; drive consensus across stakeholders
- Provide technical leadership to a small team of engineers to deliver on the roadmap
- Establish or improve technical standards for development, deployment, operation, and observability of networking services
ONE-YEAR OUTLOOK
- Drive simplification of foundational networking infrastructure across local and public-cloud environments
- Establish repeatable engineering practices for quality, performance, and operational excellence
- Nurture the team's confidence and capability by providing clarity, sustaining focus, and delivering pragmatically through successive iteration
- Set a standard for what a small team of engineers can deliver and manage when given a charter, autonomy, and the tools they need
Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
Compensation & 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
Location: England; Portugal; Spain; Italy; Ireland; Germany
Workplace: Remote
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.
_______________________________________________________________________
As a Senior Technical Account Manager, you will serve as a critical strategic partner and trusted technical advisor for our most complex and high-value customers. You will accelerate customer outcomes, ensure their success with the Docker platform and architect their long-term transformation strategies in partnership with their leadership. You'll be a Docker expert who shapes the future of their technical success and who translates their business goals into impactful, long-term technical success plans.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the strategic vision for multiple high-value enterprise accounts, driving adoption and expansion by aligning Docker's capabilities with their long-term business objectives.
- Act as the voice of the customer for the product and engineering teams, synthesising and prioritising feedback from multiple accounts to directly influence the Docker product roadmap.
- Conduct platform health assessments and maturity reviews, delivering best practices across Dockerfiles, images, CI/CD, registry strategy, and secure software supply chain governance.
- Guide customers on AI-assisted development workflows and operational governance, connecting Docker's AI capabilities to their broader platform strategy.
- Architect and execute complex adoption plans that address critical technical and business challenges.
- Lead and facilitate Strategic Business Reviews, presenting a comprehensive view of the customer's technical journey and demonstrating the strategic value and ROI of their partnership with Docker to senior leadership.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Senior TAM, Principal Solutions Architect, Solution Engineer or DevOps Consultant), with a demonstrated track record of managing and expanding high-value enterprise accounts.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and the broader cloud-native ecosystem.
- Proven ability to lead and orchestrate technical strategy for multiple, complex accounts, proactively identifying and resolving systemic issues before they become critical.
- Exceptional executive presence and communication skills, with a track record of building trusted relationships with C-level and VP-level stakeholders.
- Bonus: Experience building or contributing to a formal TAM program.
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- Complete onboarding and ramp-up training on Docker’s products, tools, and engagement frameworks.
- Shadow experienced TAMs and Solution Engineers on customer calls to learn engagement rhythms.
- Meet your portfolio of customers and understand their environments, goals, and success metrics.
- Build relationships with internal partners including Support, Product, and Sales.
- Review existing customer documentation and success plans to identify initial opportunities for impact.
FIRST 90 DAYS
- Take ownership of a customer portfolio and begin leading account engagements.
Conduct your first technical or executive business reviews with guidance from your manager.
- Establish a cadence of customer check-ins, documenting key success milestones and adoption progress.
- Identify at least one process or content improvement that can scale customer engagement or reduce friction.
- Contribute to cross-functional discussions that connect customer insights with product feedback.
ONE-YEAR OUTLOOK
- Own the full lifecycle for a portfolio of strategic or enterprise customers, delivering measurable improvements in adoption and health scores.
- Build executive relationships and serve as the customer’s voice within Docker.
- Contribute to building the broader TAM engagement model through shared best practices and enablement resources.
- Demonstrate impact through increased customer value realization, renewal success, and platform expansion.
- Mentor new TAMs and participate in developing scalable frameworks for onboarding and customer engagement.
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Compensation & Equity
EU: €104,125 – €148,750 OTE + 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
Location: San Francisco Bay Area; Seattle, WA
Workplace: Remote
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.
_______________________________________________________________________
As a Principal Software Engineer in Networking, you will set the technical direction for the networking stack behind Docker's Sandboxes platform and make architectural decisions that ripple across Docker's product portfolio. Your work will directly enable Docker's expansion into AI and security products.
This role calls for someone who:
1. Combines deep technical expertise in infrastructure at scale, virtual networking, service mesh, orchestration, and integration across the broader infrastructure stack;
2. Communicates and collaborates well, thinks critically, and turns ideas into working systems
3. Adapts to ambiguity and brings clarity
4. Provides technical leadership to a small team of engineers, driving customer delight through the solutions they deliver
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design, implement, and operate core networking services that power Docker's Sandboxes platform across local laptops and public cloud environments
- Build scalable networking infrastructure for microVM orchestration, workload scheduling, and lifecycle management
- Develop high-performance networking data- and control-plane components for multi-tenant agentic workloads
- Ensure network reliability, observability, and performance across Docker's Sandbox infrastructure
- Collaborate with product, platform, and security teams to deliver customer-focused capabilities
- Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, and design documents
- Contribute to automation and CI/CD improvements across the deployment pipeline
- Debug and resolve production issues across distributed systems in local and public-cloud environments
- Take part in on-call rotation for your team; respond to incidents and drive continuous improvement of system reliability and availability
QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of experience building and leading large-scale cloud or distributed systems, with a focus on networking foundations
- Track record of driving technical consensus and delivering high-quality infrastructure software at scale, on tight timelines
- Experience with microservices architecture, container networking, service mesh, policy enforcement, and container orchestration
- Experience with kernel and user-space networking technologies, including Linux networking, OVS/OVN, DPDK, and eBPF
- Experience designing and operating highly available, secure, and observable networking infrastructure
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) and related scalability patterns
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed environments
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across remote, cross-functional teams
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- Onboard, integrate with our Sandbox infrastructure teams, and build context on Docker's Sandbox vision
- Deep-dive into Sandbox architecture for local and public-cloud infrastructure, with a focus on driving simple, common foundational primitives usable across both environments
- Identify the highest-leverage opportunities in the current architecture, along with strategic and tactical execution risks
FIRST 90 DAYS
- Develop a technical roadmap to address the challenges identified; drive consensus across stakeholders
- Provide technical leadership to a small team of engineers to deliver on the roadmap
- Establish or improve technical standards for development, deployment, operation, and observability of networking services
ONE-YEAR OUTLOOK
- Drive simplification of foundational networking infrastructure across local and public-cloud environments
- Establish repeatable engineering practices for quality, performance, and operational excellence
- Nurture the team's confidence and capability by providing clarity, sustaining focus, and delivering pragmatically through successive iteration
- Set a standard for what a small team of engineers can deliver and manage when given a charter, autonomy, and the tools they need
Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
Compensation & Equity
United States: $198K – $319K + 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
Location: England; Portugal; Spain; Italy; Germany
Workplace: Remote
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.
_______________________________________________________________________
We are seeking a highly consultative Staff Solutions Architect to support our most important customers. This role is a critical technical position, spanning both product development and pre and post sales customer motions.
You will act as a trusted technical lead and thought leader, partnering closely with Account Executives, Post Sales, and Product teams to drive measurable business and technical value through
- High priority customer technical leadership
- Docker field technical leadership
This role reports to the Director of Solutions Architecture and operates at the intersection of technical depth, business acumen, and thought leadership.
RESPONSIBILITIES
High priority customer technical leadership
- Work with Docker’s most important customers and cross functional Docker teams to accelerate the customer’s container and AI journeys, focusing on developer workflows
- Engage with customer teams and cross functional Docker teams to gather customer’s technical/business goals and challenges related to their container and AI journey.
- Create and manage engagement plans that span existing products and new Docker offerings to achieve critical business goals.
- Oversee “design partner” rapid prototyping engagements with Docker engineering and customer teams to validate customer-product fit for new use cases
- Work with Docker teams to create/manage/deliver custom demos and content aligned to customer use cases.
- Deliver high-impact enablement and best practices content to customer audiences from developer to C level.
- Ability to travel up to 50% internationally as a senior representative of Docker to prospective clients, customers, and technical alliance partners.
Docker field technical leadership (regional/area of responsibility)
- Be a thought leader for a particular area of responsibility both internal and external to Docker, working with fellow Dockhands to create/manage/deliver content
- Gather field feedback from customer teams and Docker pre and post sales teams
- Coordinate with Field CTO and other Solutions Architects to prioritize/contextualize/correlate field requests into a cohesive set of prioritized requests to the product/engineering teams.
- Work directly with Docker product/engineering teams on workflows and feature alignment to customer use cases prioritized by revenue impact.
- Be customer zero for new functionality produced by Docker product/engineering teams
- Give input on internal technical enablement and customer enablement needs, and review enablement content
- Assist the sales enablement team with internal technical enablement for new products and services.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solution Architect in complex enterprise environments.
- Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in managing customer relationships at the technical and business level.
- Experience presenting solutions and demonstrations to small and large audiences, virtually and in person.
- Experience interfacing with internal product/software teams, including technical support, product, and engineering, to enhance documentation, enablement, and product features to improve customer experience and enablement.
- Experience developing application code, and a clear understanding of the challenges developers experience on a daily basis.
- Ability to solve technical problems and translate customer experience to actionable feedback for engineering.
- Experience developing collateral to assist customers with best-practice adoption.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containers, DevOps, and modern application architectures.
- Experience with Docker, container ecosystems, or adjacent technologies strongly preferred.
- Development, Agentic AI dev, Software Development Lifecycle and/or Software Supply Chain Security experience strongly preferred.
- Must be fluent in English
- Willingness to travel up to 50% internationally as a senior representative of Docker to prospective clients, customers, and technical alliance partners.
WHAT TO EXPECT
FIRST 30 DAYS
- You will be welcomed with a first-in-class onboarding experience that includes equipment setup, a sweet swag package, and a collaborative training program
- You will learn how to navigate through award-winning sales tools such as; Salesforce, Outreach, Sigma, and Opine.
- Actively engage with senior stakeholders, and manage relationships with clients
- You will work closely with your peers and shadow customer meetings to develop strategies to advocate for our customers.
- At the end of your first month, you will have a proficient grasp of the tools and activities necessary to be successful in your role.
FIRST 60 DAYS
- You will be laser-focused on supporting the sales and customer success teams during your second month.
- You will have connected with all of your team members.
- You will gain in-depth knowledge of Docker’s products and how they impact our customers.
- You will have an advanced understanding of tools, activities, and best practices to be successful in your role.
FIRST 90 DAYS
- In month three, you will be confident in your craft and ready to immerse yourself in our customer’s business needs fully.
- You will continue efforts to improve messaging, processes, and activities.
- Educate our clients about our product roadmap and undertake product training for users
- You will be ready to operate independently at full speed.
Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Compensation & Equity
EU: €141,400K – €202K + 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
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