Docker
Principal Software Engineer, Docker Hardened Images
$180K–$292K
Canada +1 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- Canada
United States - 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
- Visa sponsorship is considered on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
About the job
Sets the technical direction and architecture for Docker Hardened Images, a catalogue of security-hardened container images and Helm charts, and influences container supply chain security across Docker and upstream communities.
What you'll do
- Own DHI platform architecture and define standards for authoring, hardening, securing, and distributing images and Helm charts.
- Drive multi-quarter roadmaps and align engineering, product, security, executives, customers, and upstream OSS communities on technical strategy.
- Shape testing infrastructure and developer tooling, mentor engineers, and participate in paid on-call and incident response.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including extensive work on production-grade distributed systems at scale.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Deep container and Kubernetes ecosystem expertise, plus mastery of container supply chain security concepts such as provenance, attestation, SBOM, signing, and SLSA.
- Strong engineering fundamentals including Go, and a track record of technical influence across teams and upstream OSS communities.
Nice to have
- Linux distribution, Homebrew, or comparable package-maintainer experience; or hands-on supply chain tooling implementation at organizational scale.
- Regulated-environment experience, prior Principal or Distinguished IC experience, or direct enterprise customer engagement on container security architecture.
Pay
CA$245,913 – CA$397,139 CAD base salary; $180,500 – $291,500 USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, cert-manager, kyverno, grafana, istio, Go, Sigstore, SLSA
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