Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Overview
At Docker, we make app development easier so developers can focus on what matters. Our remote-first team spans the globe, united by a passion for innovation and great developer experiences. With over 20 million monthly users and 20 billion image pulls, Docker is the #1 tool for building, sharing, and running apps—trusted by startups and Fortune 100s alike. We’re growing fast and just getting started. Come join us for a whale of a ride!
Job Description
Our Infrastructure Engineering team writes software and operates the cloud‑native platform that powers Docker products such as Docker Hub, Docker Build Cloud, and Docker Scout. We design resilient services, automate everything, and measure what matters so hundreds of engineers can ship features to millions of users every day.
Responsibilities
- - Design, develop, and ship internal platform services (e.g. provisioning, cost insights, rate‑limiting) in Go or Python.
- - Partner with product and engineering teams to provide paved‑road patterns for deployment, observability, and security.
- - Codify infrastructure with Terraform and Go; champion GitOps best practices.
- - Define SLOs, lead on‑call rotations, conduct blameless post‑mortems, and implement preventive actions.
- - Evolve Docker’s ingress stack—Envoy Gateway, ALB/NLB, AWS VPC CNI—to deliver secure, reliable, and cost‑efficient request routing.
- - Operate and scale multi‑tenant EKS clusters; guide the evaluation and adoption of new infrastructure technologies.
Required Skills
- - Strong software development skills in Go, Python, or similar (design, testing, and code review).
- - Significant experience shipping and operating cloud applications/services in production (typically 5+ years of relevant work).
- - Solid foundation in Linux, networking, and cloud security.
- - Excellent written and verbal communication in a remote environment.
- - Depth in one or more of the following: Kubernetes ecosystem (EKS, ingress, CNI, service mesh), Observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana), CI/CD & release automation (GitHub Actions, Argo CD), Cost optimisation at scale (FinOps, capacity modelling), Distributed systems, containers, and Go‑based platform tooling.
Benefits
- - Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
- - Designated quarterly Whaleness Days
- - Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
- - 16 weeks of paid Parental leave
- - Technology stipend equivalent to $100 net/month
- - PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
- - Quarterly, company-wide hackathons
- - 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
About the company
Docker provides a suite of development tools, services, trusted content, and automations, used individually or together, to accelerate the delivery of secure applications.
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