# Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Docker](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/docker)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** CA$238k – CA$382k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo Cd, Amazon Eks, Envoy Gateway, Grafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, GitHub Actions, Linux, GitOps, Cross-Account Networking, Progressive Delivery, SLOs
**Posted:** 2026-06-08

> Leads the design and production adoption of self-service infrastructure platforms, multi-region cloud foundations, and reliable delivery workflows. The role requires 8+ years of hands-on software or platform engineering experience, strong Go or comparable programming skills, and deep expertise in a core infrastructure domain.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into proposals, RFCs, and architecture reviews that align teams.
- Design self-service platform capabilities and APIs, primarily in Go, for onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations.
- Establish delivery standards using Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, progressive rollout, and testing.
- Build trusted continuous-deployment workflows.
- Evolve 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 using Grafana Cloud.
- Drive platform adoption and measure provisioning speed, team self-service, and operational reliability.
- Shape safe, auditable, human-reviewed AI-assisted operational workflows.
- Improve alert enrichment, incident context gathering, runbook-assisted diagnosis, remediation recommendations, and onboarding assistants.
- Participate in on-call after onboarding and shadowing, and improve on-call health through better alerts, runbooks, reduced toil, and blameless postmortems.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong software engineering ability in Go or a similar language, including design, testing, debugging, review, and maintainability.
- Experience designing, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure platforms in production.
- Deep expertise in at least one of Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms.
- Solid Linux, networking, and production-operations fundamentals.
- Experience setting technical direction and leading cross-team work.
- Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment, including RFCs, design documents, and incident writeups.

## Nice to Have
- EKS and ingress, CNI, or service-mesh experience.
- Observability experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- CI/CD and progressive delivery experience, including GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or canary deployments.
- Experience leading migrations or adoption programs across teams.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Canada compensation: CA$238,250–CA$382,250 plus equity.
- United States compensation: $170,350–$275,550 plus equity.
- Freedom and flexibility.
- 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.
- Medical benefits, retirement, and holidays vary by country.
- Remote-first culture with offices in Seattle and Paris.

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