Field CTO

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Serve as Docker’s senior customer-facing technology advocate, shaping the technical vision in key enterprise accounts and partnerships.
• - Act as a strategic advisor to CxOs, helping them define and realize outcomes around developer productivity, secure software supply chains, and AI-driven development.
• - Partner with Sales leadership to accelerate large, complex opportunities by guiding technical alignment and executive confidence in Docker’s architecture and roadmap.
• - Represent Docker externally at industry events, executive briefings, and partner engagements, helping to articulate our value and thought leadership.
• - Collaborate with Product and Engineering to provide strategic customer feedback that influences roadmap priorities.
• - Build trusted relationships across key accounts, ensuring alignment between technical capabilities and customer outcomes.
• - Mentor Solutions Engineers and Technical Account Managers, raising the overall level of technical sales acumen and executive communication.
• - Develop reusable strategic narratives and technical blueprints that enable the field to engage at a higher, outcome-oriented level.
• - Partner cross-functionally with Marketing to shape external messaging and thought leadership content aligned with customer priorities.

Required Skills

• - 15+ years of experience in enterprise technology, including significant time in customer-facing roles or internally facing leadership roles (Field CTO, Principal Architect, Distinguished Engineer, or similar).
• - Proven success engaging executive stakeholders to align technology strategy with business outcomes.
• - Deep understanding of modern application architectures, containers, and developer platforms.
• - Expertise in software supply chain security, developer productivity, and AI/ML infrastructure.
• - Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence at the C-suite level.
• - Strong commercial and business orientation; able to link technical decisions to revenue outcomes.
• - Experience working with or building on Docker, Kubernetes, or container-native platforms (preferred).
• - Familiarity with large-scale CI/CD, cloud-native architectures, and multi-cloud deployments (preferred).
• - Experience with Generative AI/Agentic tooling platforms (security, orchestration, configuration) (preferred).
• - Prior background in pre-sales, solutions architecture, or technical evangelism (preferred).
• - Thought leadership experience through conferences, blogs, or open-source contributions (preferred).
• - Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (preferred).

Benefits

• - Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
• - Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
• - Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
• - 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
• - Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
• - PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
• - Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
• - Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
• - Docker Swag
• - Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
• - Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris