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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Docker· Engineering
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RemoteCA$238.3k - CA$382.3kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Staff-level role focused on setting technical direction and leading production-ready infrastructure initiatives to enable self-service provisioning, multi-region networking, and reliable platform adoption across Docker’s internal platform.

Responsibilities

  • Take ambiguous infrastructure problems and turn them into proposals the org can rally around, then drive them through RFCs and architecture reviews across teams.
  • Design self-service capabilities and platform APIs (primarily in Go) for onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations, with contracts and docs teams actually use.
  • Set delivery standards using Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, progressive rollout, and good testing, including building the continuous-deployment flow we're missing today.
  • Evolve the multi-tenant EKS foundations toward better reliability, security, scale, and cost: Envoy Gateway ingress, traffic routing, and the multi-region, cross-account connectivity we need.
  • Improve SLOs, alerting, and incident follow-up on Grafana Cloud so production gets safer and less dependent on heroics.
  • On-call: participate in rotation after onboarding and shadowing; improve health of on-call with better alerts, runbooks, and blameless postmortems.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Strong software engineering in Go or a similar language: design, testing, debugging, review, long-term maintainability.
  • A track record designing, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure platforms in production.
  • Deep expertise in at least one of: Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms, plus solid Linux, networking, and production-ops fundamentals.
  • Experience setting technical direction and leading work that needs cross-team alignment.
  • Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment (RFCs, design docs, incident writeups).

Skills

Required:GoTerraformGitOps (Argo CD)KubernetesCommunication
Nice to have:NetworkingOpenTelemetry/Grafana/Prometheus

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 – Representing the whale.
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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