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Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Docker· Engineering
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Remote€110.5k - €181.5k + equityFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff software engineering role focused on the Developer Experience team at Docker, leading cross-team initiatives, shaping architecture, and elevating engineering practices for backend and developer-facing systems across multiple languages and technologies.

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

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Backend developmentDistributed systemsCross-team leadershipCommunication (remote/async)

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 – US$100 net per month.
  • 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.
  • Comprehensive benefits – Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country.
  • Docker swag – Representing the company branding.
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Accelerated Container Application Development

Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.

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