Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform (West Coast)

Docker
Seattle, CA
Category Engineering
Remote
Job Description
Join Docker's Agentic Platform team to build the foundational infrastructure powering the next generation of AI-driven workflows. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll work on the core agent execution runtime, orchestration primitives, and cloud infrastructure that keeps the Agentic Platform running 24/7.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • Cloud Platform Expertise (AWS/OCI/Azure/GCP): Proven, hands-on experience operating production services in AWS or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute, networking, managed services, IAM, and cost management.
  • Service Ownership in a Cloud Setting: You have owned production services end-to-end — on-call, incident response, SLO definition, and post-mortems.
  • Distributed Systems Design: Deep understanding of fault tolerance, consistency, observability, and scalability in cloud-native environments
  • Backend Engineering Proficiency: Strong proficiency in at least one backend language used for systems work — Go, Python, Rust, or Java
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

  • Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
  • Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
  • Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
  • 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
  • Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
  • PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
  • Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
  • Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
  • Docker Swag
  • Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
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