# Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Docker](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/docker)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $161k – $261k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, argo cd, EKS, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, envoy, GitOps, Linux
**Posted:** 2026-04-03

> Senior engineer building self-service internal platform capabilities at Docker, focusing on multi-region networking, continuous deployment, EKS foundations, and AI-assisted operations to enable faster, safer provisioning for engineering teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into clear designs and working systems, contributing to RFCs and architecture reviews.
- Build self-service capabilities and platform APIs (primarily in Go) for onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations.
- Apply and help shape delivery standards with Terraform, GitOps on Argo CD, progressive rollout, and strong testing.
- Strengthen the multi-tenant EKS foundations for reliability, security, scale, and cost, including Envoy Gateway ingress, traffic routing, and multi-region, cross-account connectivity.
- Improve SLOs, alerting, and incident follow-up on Grafana Cloud.
- Help shape AI-assisted and agentic workflows for alert enrichment, incident context-gathering, runbook-assisted diagnosis and remediation, and onboarding assistants.
- Participate in on-call rotation, improve alerts, runbooks, and postmortems.

## Qualifications
- 6+ years of hands-on software engineering in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Strong software engineering in Go or similar language, including design, testing, debugging, review, and maintainability.
- Track record of building, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure in production.
- Deep expertise in at least one of: Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms.
- Solid Linux and production-ops fundamentals.
- Experience shaping technical direction and working across teams.
- Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment.
- Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering or equivalent.

## Nice-to-Haves
- EKS and ingress/CNI/service-mesh experience.
- Observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana.
- CI/CD and progressive delivery (GitHub Actions, Argo CD, canaries).
- Driving migrations or adoption programs across teams.

## Compensation & Benefits
- United States: $160,900 – $260,700 + equity
- Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life.
- Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break.
- Home office setup.
- 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment).
- Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month.
- PTO plan.
- Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes.
- Equity.
- Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country.
- Remote-first culture.

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