Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

Docker
San Jose
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 198,000 - 319,000 annuallyFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Communication","Collaboration","Mentorship","Autonomous execution"]

Embed with Docker’s most strategic customers to scope, design, build, and ship production solutions end-to-end—from discovery and architecture to rollout. Lead technical delivery for complex, ambiguous environments, integrating Docker’s AI platform with enterprise stacks (identity, secrets, registries, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability). Establish governable controls for agentic AI adoption, partner on security reviews, and feed implementation learnings back into reusable patterns and product capabilities.

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Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

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Job Summary

Embed with Docker’s most strategic customers to scope, design, build, and ship production solutions end-to-end—from discovery and architecture to rollout. Lead technical delivery for complex, ambiguous environments, integrating Docker’s AI platform with enterprise stacks (identity, secrets, registries, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability). Establish governable controls for agentic AI adoption, partner on security reviews, and feed implementation learnings back into reusable patterns and product capabilities.
Location: San Jose
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Embed with customer engineering teams to scope, design, build, and ship solutions from first prototype through stable production rollout using Docker products and patterns when possible.
  • •Deliver technical artifacts such as custom MCP servers with Docker Sandbox environments, Docker Compose definitions for multi-agent harnesses, hardened image standardization and migration, and tools that unblock customer progress.
  • •Integrate Docker’s AI platform with enterprise stacks including identity (OIDC/SAML/SSO), secrets management, private/air-gapped registries, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tooling.
  • •Translate customer security and compliance requirements into concrete plans and drive them to production, including quality/performance standards and architecture review, threat modeling, and change control with security teams.
  • •Define the FDE engagement model and delivery standards, mentor and lead other Forward Deployed Engineers, and act as a senior technical escalation point; optionally participate in an on-call rotation.
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 198,000 - 319,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkPaid LeaveHome OfficeLearning BudgetRetirementHealth Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in a customer-facing technical role such as Forward Deployed Engineer or Solutions Engineer.
  • •Expert production coding skills in Go, Python, or TypeScript, with a track record of shipping and leading technical design reviews.
  • •Deep, hands-on Docker expertise including Dockerfiles and multi-stage builds, Docker Compose, image/registry operations, container networking/storage, and container security fundamentals.
  • •Hands-on experience building with LLMs and agents in production, including tool use/function calling and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server/client implementation.
  • •Experience integrating with enterprise systems including identity providers (Okta, Entra ID, LDAP/Active Directory), OIDC/SAML, secrets managers, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Experience:10+ yearsDeveloper toolsSaaS
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Technical leadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentorshipAutonomous execution
Tech Stack:GoPythonTypeScriptDockerfilesMulti-stage buildsDocker ComposeDocker SandboxDockerfiles and multi-stage buildsSBOMsImage signingAttestationVulnerability managementCI/CDKubernetesAWSAzureGCPOIDCSAMLOkta

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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