Docker
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
$161K–$261K
Seattle, WA · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 3, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of hands-on software engineering in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering; real depth and impact may outweigh exact tenure.
- Education
- Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is considered on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
About the job
Build and operate Docker’s internal infrastructure platform, enabling teams to provision and deploy production environments safely and independently.
What you'll do
- Design and deliver self-service platform APIs and workflows for provisioning, deployment, observability, and operations.
- Develop multi-region, cross-account networking and continuous-deployment foundations using infrastructure and delivery standards.
- Improve reliability, security, cost, SLOs, alerting, and incident response; contribute to technical direction and teammate growth.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering in Go or a similar language, including design, testing, debugging, and maintainability.
- Track record building, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure in production.
- Deep expertise in at least one of Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms, with solid Linux and production-ops fundamentals.
- Experience shaping technical direction and collaborating across teams.
Nice to have
- EKS and ingress/CNI/service-mesh experience; observability with OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana.
- CI/CD and progressive delivery (GitHub Actions, Argo CD, canaries); migrations or adoption programs across teams.
Pay
USD $160,900 – $260,700 base salary
Tools
Go, Terraform, Argo CD, EKS, Envoy Gateway, Grafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus
AI focus
Help shape safe, auditable, human-reviewed AI-assisted operations, including alert enrichment, incident context-gathering, runbook-assisted diagnosis and remediation recommendations, and onboarding assistants.
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