Docker
Principal Software Engineer, AI Tools and Security (Seattle or SF Bay Area)
$198K–$319K
Seattle, WA +1 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Nov 17, 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA
San Francisco Bay Area - Experience
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
About the job
Lead technical direction and development of Docker’s MCP Gateway and related backend services, building secure, developer-friendly infrastructure for AI agents and tools.
What you'll do
- Define technical solutions for a new product and shape it with Product and Design.
- Set technical direction, serve as the team’s technical point of contact, and mentor engineers.
- Help bring the product to market; participate in on-call support as needed.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including production-grade distributed systems at scale.
- Technical leadership across multiple teams or domains and experience driving architecture and technical direction.
- Expertise in large-scale cloud-native systems, secure and resilient backend services, and reliability engineering.
- Fluency in Go or another modern systems language; experience with major cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices architecture.
- Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar LLM APIs, and the MCP specification.
Pay
USD $198K – $319K base salary
Tools
Go, Rust, Java, C++, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build secure infrastructure for AI agents and tools, including the MCP Gateway; prior experience with LLM APIs and the MCP specification is a bonus.
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