Senior Backend Engineer, Docker
Build
€94.4-141.6k
US salary range is $168K – $252K. Equity
More information about location
App development platform
Job no longer available
App development platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
€94.4-141.6k
US salary range is $168K – $252K. 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
- Extensive experience working with Golang, with a deep understanding of its ecosystem, best practices, and design patterns
- 5+ years of experience building, deploying, and monitoring microservices on top of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
- Experience developing for Linux
- Comfortable with a high degree of autonomy (self-motivated, organized) and the ability to work remotely across time zones
What the job involves
- The Build team is responsible for Docker’s container image build toolchain. Docker Build is used by millions of developers in their local loop and on their CI to build container images
- It is an important part of Docker Desktop, Docker’s Linux packages, and third-party products like GitHub Actions. The team has members from the US West Coast to Central Europe and its mission is to make performant, secure, predictable, and accessible build tooling
- The successful candidate is passionate about developer experience with an interest in low-level container workings. They have experience with developing, maintaining, monitoring, and scaling SaaS solutions
- They are comfortable working with peers in Product and Design to solve user problems. Finally, they are passionate about how developers’ lives could be made easier, and excited to create world-class tools
- Develop, deploy, and monitor microservices in AWS
- Contribute new Build features in collaboration with Design and Product peers
- Interact with other teams within Docker, as well as with upstream open source communities and our users
- Participate in paid on-call rotations: 12 hour daytime shifts, 7 days a week, once every other month
- 30 day
- Meet the team
- Understand the team mission
- Start diving into a part of the code base
- Ship a small change
- 90 day
- Feel comfortable in a part of the code base
- Meet people across the company
- Ship a more major change
- Have demoed something you worked on at the internal Product Development demos
- Attended a customer call
- Understanding of the Docker personas and how they apply to the registry
- 1 year
- Have autonomy/ownership over an area (level dependent)
- Helped shape the direction of Docker Hub and the registry (level dependent)
- Have worked with other teams at Docker on delivering an end-to-end feature
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.
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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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