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Manager, Engineering, Secure Build and SCS Services (East Coast Preferred)

Docker· Engineering
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RemoteCA$244.6k - CA$392.2kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager leading two teams (Secure Build and SCS Services) focused on secure software supply chain, trusted build outcomes, and experiences across Docker Scout and Docker Hardened Images. Remote-first, with East Coast preferred.

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.

Skills

Required:Leadership and Team ManagementStrategic Portfolio ManagementBackend/Distributed SystemsCI/Build Systems & ContainersSecurity & Trust Boundaries

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 Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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