Docker
Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience
$110K–$276K
England +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Location
- England
United States - Experience
- 8+ years of software 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
Leads cross-team backend and developer-experience initiatives, building and operating distributed systems while shaping architecture, reliability, and engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and deliver complex backend initiatives from problem definition through measurable outcomes.
- Design, build, and operate distributed services, event pipelines, databases, and APIs; improve security, reliability, and observability.
- Mentor engineers and improve team effectiveness through technical leadership, AI-assisted workflows, and shared standards.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with technical leadership on production systems at scale.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Deep experience designing, building, and operating production backend or platform systems; strong programming ability and adaptability to unfamiliar languages and codebases.
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, databases, cloud-native infrastructure, and leading cross-team initiatives.
Nice to have
- Production experience with Go, Clojure, or both.
- Experience with Spanner, Datomic, Kafka, build systems, containers, developer tooling, or software supply-chain products.
Pay
€110,500 – €181,500 EUR base salary; $170,350 – $275,550 USD base salary
Tools
Clojure, Go, Kafka, Datomic, Spanner
AI focus
Use AI-assisted engineering tools critically, validate their output, and help establish repeatable workflows and controls while retaining human accountability.
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