# Senior Software Engineer, AI Tools and Security

**Company:** [Docker](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/docker)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $185k – $261k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices, CI/CD, LLM APIs, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mcp, Backend Engineering
**Posted:** 2025-11-25

> Senior Software Engineer leads technical direction of secure AI infrastructure gateway, building high-throughput services and APIs for developer tools. Requires 6+ years backend experience, primarily in Go, with strong security and product focus.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Contribute to defining the technical approach for new product initiatives
- Collaborate closely with Product and Design to shape features and user experience
- Support and guide teammates through code reviews and technical discussions
- Serve as a reliable technical voice within the team and help ensure strong engineering standards
- Take part in on-call rotation for your team; respond to incidents, debug production issues, and drive continuous improvement of system reliability

## Qualifications
### Required
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience with production-grade systems
- Strong product mindset—you're excited about building developer-facing tools
- Strong grasp of software engineering best practices (code review, source control, CI/CD, testing)
- Experience building secure, high-throughput services
- Proficiency in modern programming languages (we primarily use **Go**)
- Ownership mentality with a bias for shipping, learning, and iterating
- Comfortable working with autonomy across distributed, remote teams
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills
- 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

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