Senior Backend Engineer, Docker
Registry
€94.4-141.6k
US Salary $168K-$252K. All areas offer equity
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App development platform
Job no longer available
App development platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
€94.4-141.6k
US Salary $168K-$252K. All areas offer 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
- 5+ years experience building, deploying, and monitoring microservices on top of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
- Proficiency in modern programming languages. We love to work with Go
- Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases in high-volume environments
- Comfortable following software engineering best practices such as code review, source control, continuous integration, and testing
- Comfortable with a high degree of autonomy (self-motivated, organized) and the ability to work remotely across time zones
- The successful candidate is comfortable working with product managers and designers to develop, maintain and evolve SaaS features
- They have experience working with microservices and serverless functions
- They are constantly seeking ways to improve monitoring and reliability of SaaS services as well as CI/CD workflows to ensure they maintain a high level of quality with a fast pace of delivery
- Finally, they are passionate about how developers’ lives could be made easier, and excited to create world-class tools to help the global development community deliver containers more effectively
What the job involves
- The Registry team is a product team that is responsible for the performant search, distribution, discovery and management of Docker images and other OCI content on Docker Hub
- The successful candidate is comfortable working with product managers and designers to develop, maintain and evolve SaaS features
- They have experience working with microservices and serverless functions. They are constantly seeking ways to improve monitoring and reliability of SaaS services as well as CI/CD workflows to ensure they maintain a high level of quality with a fast pace of delivery
- Create world-class tools to help the global development community deliver containers more effectively
- Develop, deploy and monitor microservices and serverless components in AWS
- Improve the functionality of the world’s largest repository of container images
- Build and improve team automation tools including Github Actions, Argo CD, and Grafana dashboards
- Tackle high-performance engineering challenges to deliver container images in a performant way
- Play an active role in improving the way registry services are tested and deployed
- 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
- What to expect in the first 30 days
- Meet the team
- Understand the team mission
- Start diving into a part of the code base
- Ship a small change
- What to expect in the first 90 days
- 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
- What to expect in the first 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.
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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