# Staff Solutions Architect

**Company:** [Docker](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/docker)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** €141k – €202k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Docker, Containers, DevOps, Ai Development, Software Development Lifecycle, Software Supply Chain Security, Application Development, Salesforce, Outreach, Sigma, Opine
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Leads strategic enterprise customer engagements spanning Docker’s container and AI products, from solution design and prototyping through enablement and product feedback. Requires strong enterprise-facing architecture experience, application development knowledge, cloud and DevOps expertise, and international travel.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### High-Priority Customer Technical Leadership
- Partner with Docker’s most important customers and cross-functional teams to accelerate container and AI journeys, with a focus on developer workflows.
- Gather customers’ technical and business goals and challenges related to their container and AI journeys.
- Create and manage engagement plans spanning existing products and new Docker offerings.
- Oversee design-partner rapid-prototyping engagements with engineering and customer teams to validate customer-product fit.
- Create, manage, and deliver custom demos and content aligned with customer use cases.
- Deliver enablement and best-practices content to audiences ranging from developers to C-level executives.
- Travel internationally up to 50% as a senior Docker representative.

### Docker Field Technical Leadership
- Serve as a thought leader for an assigned area of responsibility, internally and externally.
- Create, manage, and deliver technical content with fellow Docker employees.
- Gather field feedback from customer teams and pre- and post-sales teams.
- Coordinate with the Field CTO and Solutions Architects to prioritize field requests for product and engineering teams.
- Work directly with product and engineering teams on workflows and feature alignment based on customer use cases and revenue impact.
- Act as the customer zero for new functionality.
- Provide input on internal and customer technical enablement needs and review enablement content.
- Assist sales enablement with internal technical enablement for new products and services.

## Requirements
- Proven experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solutions Architect in complex enterprise environments.
- Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience managing customer relationships at technical and business levels.
- Experience presenting solutions and demonstrations to small and large audiences, virtually and in person.
- Experience working with technical support, product, and engineering teams to improve documentation, enablement, product features, and customer experience.
- Experience developing application code and understanding developers’ day-to-day challenges.
- Ability to solve technical problems and translate customer experience into actionable engineering feedback.
- Experience developing collateral that supports best-practice adoption.
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms, containers, DevOps, and modern application architectures.
- Fluent in English.
- Willingness to travel internationally up to 50%.
- Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with Docker, container ecosystems, or adjacent technologies.
- Experience with development, agentic AI development, software development life cycle, or software supply-chain security.

## Compensation & Benefits
- **Compensation:** €141,400K–€202K plus equity.
- Equity participation.
- Flexible, remote-first work culture.
- Quarterly Whaleness Days and an end-of-year Whaleness break.
- Home-office setup.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
- Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net per month.
- Paid time off.
- Training stipend for conferences, courses, and classes.
- Medical benefits, retirement, and holidays vary by country.
- Docker swag.

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