Docker
Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Sandboxes (Seattle or SF Bay Area)
$170K–$276K
Seattle, WA +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 26, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
San Francisco Bay Area - Experience
- 10+ years of backend software engineering experience building large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
- 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
Designs and operates scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure and core services for Docker’s Cloud Sandboxes platform, supporting cloud agentic workloads.
What you'll do
- Build services for microVM orchestration, workload scheduling, lifecycle management, and multi-tenant control planes.
- Ensure reliability, observability, security, and performance; debug production issues and participate in on-call.
- Collaborate across teams on architecture, customer-focused capabilities, and deployment automation.
What they ask for
- Strong proficiency in Go and/or Java.
- Deep understanding of container orchestration, Kubernetes, and microservices.
- Experience designing and operating highly available, secure, observable production systems, with cloud infrastructure knowledge (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Experience contributing to cloud-scale compute platforms or container infrastructure products.
- Knowledge of service mesh, networking, policy enforcement, or observability stacks.
Pay
USD $170,350 – $275,550 base salary
Tools
Go, Java, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
AI focus
Builds infrastructure for Docker’s cloud agentic platform and workloads.
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