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DockerDockerSeattle, WA

Principal Software Engineer, AI Tools and Security (US West Coast)

Leads technical direction for secure AI infrastructure gateway, building scalable backend services with distributed systems expertise. Requires 10+ years backend experience, Go fluency, cloud platforms, and technical leadership in remote teams.

232k – 319k/yr
Remote10+ YOESecurity Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical solution for a new product
  • Help shape the product with peers in Product and Design
  • Mentor other technical team members
  • Be the technical point of contact for the team
  • Take part in on-call rotation for your team; respond to incidents, debug production issues, and drive continuous improvement of system reliability

Qualifications

Required:

  • 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including extensive work on production-grade, distributed systems at scale
  • Technical leadership across multiple teams or domains, with a proven ability to drive architectural vision, set technical direction, and influence long-term product strategy
  • Exceptional product and platform mindset—you think beyond implementation details to how technology shapes developer and business outcomes
  • Expertise in designing and evolving large-scale, cloud-native systems, with deep knowledge of distributed computing, service-oriented architecture, and performance optimization
  • Demonstrated experience building secure, resilient, and high-throughput backend services, with a strong grasp of reliability engineering principles (SLOs, observability, incident response)
  • Fluency in Go (preferred) or another modern systems language (Rust, Java, C++, etc.), with the ability to lead technical design reviews and mentor others in language-specific best practices
  • Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals—CI/CD, testing strategy, source control, and deployment automation—applied in complex, multi-service environments
  • Proven track record of technical mentorship and cross-functional collaboration, enabling teams to deliver high-impact, high-quality software efficiently
  • Deep experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tooling
  • Ownership mentality with a bias for action and iterative delivery, balancing short-term impact with long-term architectural health
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Comfortable operating autonomously in distributed, remote-first teams, and leading through influence rather than authority
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Bonus:

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices architecture
  • Prior experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar LLM APIs, and the MCP specification

Skills

GoRustJavaC++KubernetesDockerAWSAzureGCPCI/CD

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