Principal Software Engineer, Networking (Seattle or SF Bay Area)

Docker
San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 198,000 - 319,000Function: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Debugging"]

Lead the technical direction for Docker’s Sandboxes networking stack, making architectural decisions that impact Docker’s broader product portfolio. You’ll design, implement, and operate core networking services across laptops and public clouds, build scalable infrastructure for microVM orchestration, and deliver high-performance data/control-plane components for multi-tenant workloads. Collaborate across product, platform, and security teams, drive observability and reliability improvements, and provide technical leadership to a small engineering team.

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Principal Software Engineer, Networking (Seattle or SF Bay Area)

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Job Summary

Lead the technical direction for Docker’s Sandboxes networking stack, making architectural decisions that impact Docker’s broader product portfolio. You’ll design, implement, and operate core networking services across laptops and public clouds, build scalable infrastructure for microVM orchestration, and deliver high-performance data/control-plane components for multi-tenant workloads. Collaborate across product, platform, and security teams, drive observability and reliability improvements, and provide technical leadership to a small engineering team.
Location: San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement, and operate core networking services powering Docker’s Sandboxes platform across local laptops and public clouds.
  • •Build scalable networking infrastructure for microVM orchestration, workload scheduling, and lifecycle management.
  • •Develop high-performance networking data- and control-plane components for multi-tenant agentic workloads.
  • •Ensure network reliability, observability, and performance across the Sandboxes infrastructure, including debugging production issues.
  • •Provide technical leadership for a small team and collaborate with product, platform, and security teams to deliver customer-focused capabilities.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 198,000 - 319,000
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Medical BenefitsParental LeaveHome OfficeLearning BudgetRetirement

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years building and leading large-scale cloud or distributed systems with a focus on networking foundations.
  • •Experience designing and operating highly available, secure, and observable networking infrastructure.
  • •Experience with microservices architecture, container networking, service mesh, policy enforcement, and container orchestration.
  • •Hands-on knowledge of kernel and user-space networking technologies including Linux networking, OVS/OVN, DPDK, and eBPF.
  • •Strong cloud understanding (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) plus familiarity with CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
Experience:10+ yearsCloudDistributed systemsContainer networkingService meshInfrastructure
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Technical leadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingDebugging
Tech Stack:MicroVMService meshLinux networkingOVSOVNDPDKEBPFAWSAzureGCPOCICI/CDInfrastructure-as-codeMonitoringNetworking data-planeNetworking control-planeMicroservices architectureContainer networkingPolicy enforcementContainer orchestration

Company Brief

Docker
Docker builds developer tools and a collaborative platform for building, sharing and running containerized applications, including Docker Desktop and Docker Hub, to simplify container workflows from code to cloud.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
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