Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Docker is shipping a wave of new products this year, with R&D initiatives likely to lead to more, and we're investing heavily in the platform underneath all of it. That platform supports hundreds of engineers across many development teams and carries high-scale production traffic and data transfer every day. It has grown faster than its foundations, and this year is about closing that gap. Today, much of that work still leans on a handful of experts unblocking the same provisioning and operational workflows by hand. The top priority for this role is moving that work from expert-driven support to paved roads: self-service systems with clear ownership, safe defaults, strong guardrails, and adoption we can measure. The goal is a platform teams trust enough to stop thinking about it, one that just works, so they can focus on their own products instead of ours.

Responsibilities

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.; Join the on-call rotation after onboarding and shadowing; improve the health of on-call with better alerts, stronger runbooks, less toil, and blameless postmortems aimed at prevention.; Help shape AI-assisted and agentic workflows to cut operational toil, keeping them safe, auditable, and human-reviewed.

Requirements

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.

Benefits

Remote-first by design; Flexibility that fits your life; Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and designated end-of-year Whaleness break; Home office support; Technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net per month; Learning & development annual stipend; Parental leave – 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment; Equity for all full-time employees; Comprehensive benefits – medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country; Docker swag.