Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Sandboxes (Seattle or SF/Bay Area)

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Sandboxes team, you’ll design and build the core systems that power Docker’s cloud agentic platform. Your work will focus on creating scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure that enables developers to deploy and manage agentic workloads efficiently and with confidence.

If you thrive on solving distributed systems challenges, enjoy working at the intersection of developer experience and cloud infrastructure, and want to help shape the future of Docker’s platform, we’d love to hear from you.

- Design, implement, and operate core services that power Docker’s Cloud Sandboxes platform

- Build scalable systems for microVM orchestration, workload scheduling, and lifecycle management

- Develop high-performance APIs and control plane components for managing multi-tenant workloads

- Ensure system reliability, observability, and performance across Docker’s Cloud Sandbox infrastructure

- Collaborate with product, platform, and security teams to deliver customer-focused capabilities

- Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, and design documents

- Contribute to automation and CI/CD improvements across the deployment pipeline

- Debug and resolve production issues across distributed systems in cloud environments

- Take part in on-call rotation for your team; respond to incidents, debug production issues, and drive continuous improvement of system reliability

- 10+ years of backend software engineering experience building large-scale cloud or distributed systems

- Deep understanding of container orchestration, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture

- Experience designing and operating highly available, secure, and observable production systems

- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and related scalability patterns

- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code tooling

- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed environments

- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across remote, cross-functional teams

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

- Experience contributing to cloud-scale compute platforms or container infrastructure products

- Knowledge of service mesh, networking, or policy enforcement systems

- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, etc.)

- Familiarity with security best practices for multi-tenant cloud systems

- Prior experience in developer infrastructure, cloud platforms, or hyperscale environments

Docker considers sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.