England•United States
Remote
Senior
Full Time
💰$160,900 - $260,700
remoteseniorsoftware engineeringGocloudCI/CDsecurity
Requirements
- •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
What You'll Do
- •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
Nice to Have
- •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
Benefits
- •Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
- •Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
- •Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
- •16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
- •Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
- •PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
- •Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
- •Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
- •Docker Swag
- •Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
- •Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris
