Docker
Principal Technical Program Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
$163K–$255K
United States · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of technical program management experience, including 4+ years at Staff level or above.
- 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
Leads the Forward Deployed Engineering program by setting delivery standards, managing capacity and commitments, and improving coordination between customer-facing teams, Product, and Engineering.
What you'll do
- Define FDE delivery standards, metrics, and operating practices; turn engagement lessons into reusable practices and product improvements.
- Run FDE operations, including capacity and staffing plans, executive reporting, and tracking customer and engineering commitments and dependencies.
- Represent FDE across Docker, improve cross-functional processes, and set priorities and mentor junior TPMs.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of technical program management experience, including 4+ years at Staff level or above, supporting customer-facing engineering, professional services, or field engineering teams.
- Track record delivering enterprise customer commitments on schedule, including contractual or executive-visible deadlines; experience defining adopted standards and processes and managing dependencies across engineering teams.
- Strong technical background in cloud platforms, containers, and modern software delivery; experience selecting metrics and setting targets.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; occasional travel to customer sites and Docker team gatherings.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting a Forward Deployed Engineering, Professional Services, Solutions Engineering, or Customer Engineering organization; familiarity with the agentic AI ecosystem, coding agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and AI workload security and governance.
- Experience with regulated customers or developer tools, infrastructure software, or platform companies; familiarity with Docker products, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development platforms.
Pay
$162,505 - $254,650 USD base salary
Tools
cloud platforms, containers, Docker products, Kubernetes, cloud-native development platforms, coding agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP)
AI focus
Preferred familiarity with the agentic AI ecosystem, including coding agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and enterprise security and governance requirements for AI workloads.
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