Docker
Staff Software Engineer, Docker AI Substrate (Seattle or Palo Alto)
$170K–$276K
Palo Alto, CA or Seattle, WA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering in infrastructure, platform, or cloud services.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science 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
Design, build, and operate Docker’s enterprise agent platform infrastructure, focusing on secure, reliable deployments across cloud providers and environments.
What you'll do
- Build and operate platform deployment, release, and management systems in Go and Kubernetes.
- Ensure reproducible, verifiable releases and enterprise security, identity, and network boundaries.
- Own production operations, including on-call, SLOs, incident response, and operational tooling.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of professional software engineering in infrastructure, platform, or cloud services.
- Experience building and operating a production cloud control and management plane for multiple tenants or environments.
- Kubernetes controller or operator experience, including reconciliation and CRDs.
- Professional proficiency in Go; hands-on experience with a major cloud’s compute, networking, identity, and managed services.
Nice to have
- Kubernetes resource orchestration/cloud controllers, release engineering and software supply chain, private cloud connectivity, OpenTelemetry, managed services, or isolated execution environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Pay
USD $170,350 – $275,550 base salary
Tools
Go, Kubernetes, KRO, OCI registries, PrivateLink, VPC peering, OpenTelemetry, Firecracker
AI focus
Build the secure, reproducible infrastructure that enables enterprise customers to run AI agents at scale.
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