Senior Software Engineer, Secure Build
Build and operate secure, reliable infrastructure for Docker’s container build and CI platform. The role requires strong Go and distributed-systems experience, production operational ownership, and familiarity with container, cloud, and software supply-chain security technologies.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Turn developer, agent, and security problems into clear requirements, staged technical decisions, and measurable outcomes.
- Design, build, and operate Go services and APIs powering Docker’s build and secure-CI infrastructure.
- Develop isolation, identity, policy, provenance, attestation, and signing capabilities for trusted build and test jobs.
- Work with container, OCI, BuildKit, cloud, and isolated-execution technologies to deliver secure and reproducible workflows.
- Own features from technical design through rollout, observability, incident response, and ongoing maintenance.
- Improve the reliability of Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds and reduce operational load.
- Make practical security trade-offs and use threat modeling to guide designs.
- Design clear developer experiences, including workflows initiated or consumed by software agents.
- Partner with Product, Security, Developer Experience, Registry, and other platform teams.
- Participate in the paid on-call rotation and drive improvements from incidents and recurring operational work.
- Communicate decisions, risks, and progress clearly in a remote, async-first environment.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong backend engineering experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
- Production experience with Go, including writing, testing, reviewing, and debugging maintainable services.
- Experience with containers and build or CI systems, such as OCI, BuildKit, Buildx, GitHub Actions, or comparable platforms.
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and a major cloud platform.
- Strong operational mindset covering observability, reliability, incident response, and on-call ownership.
- Experience taking a feature or service from an ambiguous problem through production operation and measurable results.
- Working knowledge of security boundaries, identity, secrets, and common software supply-chain risks.
- Strong product mindset and care for developer workflows, including experiences used by software agents.
- Clear written and spoken communication suited to a remote, async-first company.
Nice-to-haves
- Kubernetes.
- SLSA, in-toto, SBOM, VEX, Sigstore, cosign, provenance, or artifact signing.
- Sandboxing, microVMs, untrusted workload execution, or multi-tenant infrastructure.
- Hosted CI runners, remote builders, or developer-platform infrastructure.
- Agentic development workflows or systems used programmatically by software agents.
- Evolving legacy production systems while delivering new capabilities.
Compensation & Benefits
- EU compensation: €94,040–€155,650 plus equity.
- United States compensation: $160,900–$260,700 plus equity.
- Freedom and flexibility to fit work around your life.
- Quarterly Whaleness Days and an end-of-year Whaleness break.
- Home office setup support.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
- Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net per month.
- PTO plan.
- Training stipend for conferences, courses, and classes.
- Equity participation.
- Docker swag.
- Medical benefits, retirement, and holidays vary by country.
Skills
Go, Distributed Systems, Docker, Containers, Oci, Buildkit, Buildx, GitHub Actions, Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Slsa, Sigstore, Cosign, Software Supply Chain Security, Observability
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