Remote
US
$170K–$276K
💻Engineering
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Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout.
We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.
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The Developer Experience team builds the backend systems and product capabilities that help developers understand, secure and ship software with confidence. The team powers important parts of Docker Scout, Docker Hardened Images and the workflows that turn supply-chain data into useful developer experiences.
Our systems are deliberately polyglot. Today that includes Clojure and Go services, event-driven workflows, Kafka, legacy Datomic components and newer Spanner-backed services. We will keep evolving the stack as the product and business change. We are looking for an adaptable backend engineer who can become effective in an unfamiliar codebase, choose technology pragmatically and help other engineers do the same. Clojure experience is useful, but it is not a requirement and this is not a Clojure-specialist role.
We make extensive use of AI-assisted engineering tools. We expect engineers to use them thoughtfully, validate their output and remain accountable for the quality, security and operability of what ships. At Staff level, you will also help the team turn good individual practice into repeatable workflows, controls and shared standards.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead ambiguous, cross-team work from problem definition through measurable outcomes. You will remain hands-on in code while shaping architecture, raising operational standards and creating enough clarity for several engineers and partner teams to move quickly. Work may span developer-facing features, build and artefact workflows, data and event pipelines, platform evolution and integrations with Docker's build and security systems.
You will succeed by finding the highest-leverage problem, creating momentum before every detail is known and bringing people with you. Within your first year, teams should be delivering more confidently because you have made system boundaries clearer, reduced operational risk, connected technical choices to customer outcomes and helped senior engineers take on larger work.
EU: €110,500 – €181,500+ equity
United States: $170,350 – $275,550 + equity
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Docker is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe diverse teams build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our global community.
USD 170,350 - 275,550
Annually
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Mental Health Benefits
Disability Insurance
Life Insurance
401(k) / Retirement Plan
Equity / RSUs
Financial Planning
Unlimited PTO
Paid Holidays
Company Shutdown Days
Flexible Schedule
Home Office Stipend
Coworking Allowance
Company Offsites / Retreats
Parental Leave
Learning & Development Budget
Employee Resource Groups
Team Events & Social Budget
Docker hires by country or region rather than treating remote work as location unrestricted, so check each posting for its eligible location.
Distributed teams stay connected through hackathons, Lunch Roulette, offsites, and employee resource groups. Docker also schedules quarterly company-wide Whaleness Days and a year-end break as shared time away from work.
Docker lists fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for US employees, with localized benefits elsewhere. Other offerings include mental-health and retirement support, parental leave, equity, flexible PTO, home-office and coworking support, a monthly technology stipend, and annual learning support.
Docker uses location-based compensation. Its job postings may show different country-specific salary or OTE ranges for the same role, and Docker says final compensation considers experience, skills, qualifications, and location. Check the posting for the range that applies to your location and whether the offer includes equity.
