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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - **Company:** Docker - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $170,350.0 - $275,550.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Linux, Github, Octopus Deploy, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Runbook, Software Engineering, Istio, Grafana, Core Api, Backend, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform, Docker - **Published:** August 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pf1fx8lss2 ## About the Role * 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering. * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience * Strong software engineering in Go or a similar language: design, testing, debugging, review, long-term maintainability. * A track record designing, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure platforms in production. We hire for skill and impact, not years. * Deep expertise in at least one of: Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms, plus solid Linux, networking, and production-ops fundamentals. * Experience setting technical direction and leading work that needs cross-team alignment. * Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment (RFCs, design docs, incident writeups). Nice to have: EKS and ingress/CNI/service-mesh experience; observability with OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana; CI/CD and progressive delivery (GitHub Actions, Argo CD, canaries); experience leading migrations or adoption programs across teams. You don't need every item here. We value deep expertise in one area, strong systems judgment, and curiosity across the rest. ## Description This is a Staff-level role, so success is measured by leverage rather than just your own commits. On a team this size you'll stay hands-on in the codebase while also setting direction, aligning teams on pragmatic standards, and carrying platform investments through to adoption. Concretely, you will: * Take ambiguous infrastructure problems and turn them into proposals the org can rally around, then drive them through RFCs and architecture reviews across teams. * Design self-service capabilities and platform APIs (primarily in Go) for onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations, with contracts and docs teams actually use. * Set delivery standards using Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, progressive rollout, and good testing, including building the continuous-deployment flow we're missing today. * Evolve the multi-tenant EKS foundations toward better reliability, security, scale, and cost: Envoy Gateway ingress, traffic routing, and the multi-region, cross-account connectivity we need. * Improve SLOs, alerting, and incident follow-up on Grafana Cloud so production gets safer and less dependent on heroics. We judge this work by outcomes the consuming teams feel: how fast they can provision and ship, how much they can do without us, and how reliably it all runs. AI-assisted operations We're Actively Investing In AI-assisted And Agentic Workflows To Cut Operational Toil. We Care That They Stay Safe, Auditable, And Human-reviewed. You'll Help Shape Where These Earn Their Place And Where They Don't. Early Targets Include * Alert enrichment and incident context-gathering: assembling the relevant signals, history, and runbook so the on-call engineer starts with context instead of a blank page. * Runbook-assisted diagnosis and remediation recommendations, with a human in the loop on anything that changes production. * Onboarding and readiness assistants that answer the questions our experts answer today. If you've built operational automation and have a healthy skepticism about where automation belongs, this is a place to put both to work., * Open vacancy: This posting is for an existing open role. * AI in hiring: Docker may use AI-assisted tools during our recruiting process. * Interview recordings: Candidates will be invited to opt in to interview recordings to support interviewer calibration and consistent evaluations. 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