Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Docker
England, United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 110,500 - 181,500 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Technical and product judgement","Operational mindset","Influencing without authority","Written and spoken communication"]

Lead ambiguous, cross-team work for Developer Experience systems, staying hands-on while shaping architecture, operational standards, and measurable outcomes. Build and operate distributed services, event pipelines, databases, and APIs with strong security, reliability, and observability. Partner across Product, Design, Security, and engineering teams to connect technical investment to developer and business results, while mentoring senior engineers and improving leverage with AI-assisted workflows.

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Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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Job Summary

Lead ambiguous, cross-team work for Developer Experience systems, staying hands-on while shaping architecture, operational standards, and measurable outcomes. Build and operate distributed services, event pipelines, databases, and APIs with strong security, reliability, and observability. Partner across Product, Design, Security, and engineering teams to connect technical investment to developer and business results, while mentoring senior engineers and improving leverage with AI-assisted workflows.
Location: England, United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set technical direction for major backend and developer-experience initiatives across Clojure, Go and adjacent systems.
  • •Turn ambiguous product/platform problems into clear plans, staged decisions, and measurable outcomes.
  • •Design, build, and operate distributed services, event pipelines, databases, and APIs with strong security and reliability.
  • •Lead cross-team delivery, surface risks early, and remove technical or organizational blockers without waiting for formal authority.
  • •Improve observability, incident readiness, performance, and service ownership while mentoring senior engineers and raising design/code-review quality.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 110,500 - 181,500 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityMedical BenefitsRetirementParental LeaveHome OfficeTechnology StipendTraining StipendPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale.
  • •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • •Deep experience designing, building, and operating production backend or platform systems.
  • •Strong programming ability in at least one production language, with evidence of becoming effective in unfamiliar languages and codebases.
  • •Experience designing distributed, event-driven systems and APIs using relational or distributed databases and cloud-native infrastructure.
Experience:8+ yearsDeveloper toolingDistributed systemsEvent-driven architecturesPlatform systemsDeveloper experience
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Technical leadershipTechnical and product judgementOperational mindsetInfluencing without authorityWritten and spoken communication
Tech Stack:ClojureGoKafkaDatomicSpannerAPIsEvent-driven architecturesDistributed systemsRelational databasesDistributed databasesCloud-native infrastructureAI-assisted engineering tools

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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