Senior Software Engineer, Docker
Clojure
$189.6-260.7k
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App development platform
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App development platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$189.6-260.7k
Offers Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To increase the time developers spend on innovation, and decrease the time they spend on everything else.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience building and operating backend systems in production
- Strong programming skills in Clojure plus production experience with Go or a comparable language with a willingness to learn Go
- Experience designing and maintaining distributed systems or microservices
- Strong understanding of cloud native systems (AWS or GCP), APIs, and data stores
- Proven experience mentoring engineers and guiding projects from design to delivery
- Excellent communication skills in a remote, async first environment
- A grounded, practical approach to balancing technical depth with business outcomes
What the job involves
- The Developer Experience (DevEx) team builds the systems and experiences that help millions of developers build, secure, and ship software with confidence
- We power critical parts of Docker Scout and Hardened Images, enabling developers and enterprises to understand and improve their software supply chains
- We’re expanding our backend engineering group to strengthen the systems behind Docker’s proprietary content and the experiences built on top of it
- Working mainly with Clojure and Go, you’ll shape distributed systems that transform signals from across the Docker ecosystem into reliable, product ready capabilities
- As a Senior Engineer, you’ll guide technical design, lead small delivery groups, and raise the bar for engineering excellence across the team
- This role suits someone who enjoys solving deep technical problems while supporting the growth of engineers around them
- You’ll thrive here if you enjoy leading by example. Success means you’ve improved system reliability, influenced architectural decisions, mentored engineers, and helped shape a strong technical culture while keeping delivery front and center
- Design, build, and maintain backend systems and APIs written in Clojure and Go
- Lead small feature teams through planning, execution, and delivery
- Mentor engineers and share knowledge across the team
- Make pragmatic architectural decisions and contribute to long term technical direction
- Work closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to deliver end to end value
- Improve observability, performance, and security of backend services
- Raise operational standards and take part in the paid on call rotation
- Champion clear communication, documentation, and technical excellence
- First 30 Days
- Learn our architecture, services, and workflows
- Pair with engineers across Clojure and Go systems
- Ship your first changes to production
- Get comfortable with our CI/CD, tooling, and deployment practices
- First 90 Days
- Own a small project end to end
- Lead a feature delivery or reliability improvement initiative
- Contribute to documentation, designs, and mentoring
- Build strong working relationships across Product, Design, and Engineering
- One Year Outlook
- You’re a trusted technical leader in DevEx
- You’ve improved backend reliability, performance, and delivery velocity
- You’ve mentored multiple engineers and shaped team level architecture
- You’re leading significant projects and influencing future technical strategy
Our take
Docker supplies a hub and desktop solution to simplify the workflow of app development teams. Originally known for popularising the idea of containerising software, it saw itself outpaced by Kubernetes. However, the company has identified a problem with the growing complexity of containerisation, with some apps consisting of dozens or even hundreds of containers - which is what it now addresses.
Docker has had a difficult time in the recent past, with 2019 seeing it sell off its enterprise business, reduce its workforce by hundreds, and change its leadership team. As a well known brand and ecosystem for containerisation, however, it aims to lure developers back to its product as well as to take advantage of the growing global demand for app development.
Returning to focus on developers rather than large companies was certainly a gamble, but one that seems to have paid off. The company has returned to profitability and raised Series C funding in 2022, which is cited to fund hiring new talent, ramping up its business, and continuing to develop and refine its product. It's also embarked on a series of acquisitions to bolster its business, with speculation mounting about its possible sale in the near future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
47% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Mar 2022
$105m
SERIES C
Mar 2021
$23m
SERIES B
Total funding: $498m
Company benefits
- 100% company paid medical premiums for employees and dependents
- Flexible Time Off Policy
- “Whaleness” Days — At least 1 company wide day off per month
- Employer Paid Holidays
- Generous Maternity and Parental Leave
- Home Office Set Up Budget
- Monthly Technology Stipend
- Training Allowances
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Retirement Plans
- Virtual and In-Person Social Events
- Docker Swag
- Quarterly Hackathons
- Virtual Coffee with Co-Workers
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Don Johnson
(CEO)Previously Executive Vice President of Infrastructure at Oracle, was a Principal Engineer at Amazon and a Lead Software Engineer at RealNetworks.
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