Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams with responsibility across multiple teams or technical domains
8+ years professional hands-on software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, platform, or developer tooling
Experience leading, growing, and retaining engineers including handling difficult performance conversations
Leader-first operating model with sufficient technical judgement to participate in design and review across various systems
Ability to prioritize competing roadmaps, operational load, and stakeholder commitments effectively
Strong backend and distributed systems knowledge including APIs, event-driven architectures, data stores, cloud infrastructure, and production operations
Understanding of CI/build system internals, containers, artifact workflows, and strong interest in software supply-chain security and trust boundaries
Experience leading teams operating production infrastructure with on-call, incident response, observability, and SLOs
Strong product judgement and experience shaping roadmaps collaboratively with Product teams
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong cross-functional influence, and comfort working remotely across European and US time zones

Nice to Haves

Experience with Go, Clojure, or both across a polyglot technology stack
Experience with Kafka, Spanner, Datomic, or similar event-streaming and distributed data systems
Experience with OCI, BuildKit, Buildx, GitHub Actions, or similar build and CI platforms
Experience with sandboxing, microVMs, untrusted workload execution, or multi-tenant infrastructure
Experience with SLSA, in-toto, SBOMs, VEX, Sigstore, cosign, provenance, signing, or vulnerability scanning
Experience evolving legacy systems while shipping new developer tools, security products, regulated customer solutions, or software-agent workflows

Lead two engineering teams (Secure Build and SCS Services) including delivery, team health, growth, performance, and operational excellence
Manage and align two roadmaps into a coherent portfolio plan with explicit priorities and trade-offs
Partner with Product to shape strategy and roadmaps for secure build, Docker Scout, Docker Hardened Images, and their connecting services
Stay close to technical work through design/code reviews, incident response, and hands-on contributions as needed
Ensure technical directions support product, security, reliability, and customer priorities collaboratively with senior engineers
Own and manage interfaces between teams including trust boundaries, contracts, data quality, and operational ownership
Balance new product development with maintenance of inherited systems, on-call responsibilities, and reliability improvements
Drive engineer growth, perform evaluations, handle difficult conversations, hire, retain talent, and build succession plans
Align cross-functional partners across Product, Design, Security, Sales, Support, Legal, and others while protecting teams from churn
Lead disciplined use of AI-assisted engineering and communicate decisions and progress clearly across time zones

Remote-first work environment with offices in Seattle and Paris for collaboration
Flexible scheduling that supports work-life balance
Generous paid time off, including quarterly and end-of-year Whaleness days
Home office setup support for comfort and productivity
Technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net per month
Annual learning and development stipend for conferences, courses, and certifications
16 weeks paid parental leave after six months employment
Equity offered to all full-time employees for long-term company success
Comprehensive medical, retirement, and paid holiday benefits varying by country
Company swag to represent Docker pride