Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform (West Coast)

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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