Manager, Engineering – Secure Build

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About the role

  • Engineering Manager leading a team in secure build infrastructure development at Docker. Overseeing high-stakes projects and fostering team growth in a remote-first environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of senior engineers operating Docker Build Cloud and Hub's build systems and building Docker's next generation of secure build infrastructure.
  • Own delivery: turn an ambiguous, high-stakes roadmap, including time-bound commitments to regulated and federal customers, into a concrete plan the team can execute predictably.
  • Get the team's process and mechanics right, and partner closely with Product to turn strategy into a roadmap the team believes in.
  • Stay deep in the technical work: active in design discussions and code review, hands-on in the code where it helps, rather than steering from a distance.
  • Be a real part of setting the team's technical direction, working with the engineers who lead on different parts of the system, while giving the whole team room to own technical decisions.
  • This role may require participation in an on-call rotation to provide support outside of standard business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, as needed.
  • Be accountable for the reliability and operational excellence of the team's production services, including a healthy, humane on-call rotation.
  • Own the growth, development, and performance of each engineer on the team, and hire to strengthen it.
  • Work across the wider org - Product, sales, commercial and legal, the Hub/registry team, and security - to align the team and shield it from churn.
  • Hold a high bar for engineering excellence and raise the team's security hygiene.

Requirements

  • 5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, including engineers at or above their own level of technical seniority, with a track record of growing and retaining senior individual contributors.
  • 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • A leader first: strong on team process and mechanics, on partnering with Product, and on reading and navigating the personalities on and around a team to make it more than the sum of its parts.
  • Comfortable inheriting a team they didn't build: earning the trust of experienced engineers, and owning the full range of performance conversations, including the difficult ones, fairly and directly.
  • Technically deep and still hands-on: recent enough engineering chops to be active in design and code review, be a real part of setting technical direction with the team, and write code where it helps. Not the best engineer in the room or the deepest domain expert, but not a manager who's left the technical detail behind either.
  • A strong interest in security: how recent attacks have actually worked, the OWASP Top 10, and the build threat model. Familiarity with software supply chain security (SLSA, in-toto, provenance, signing such as cosign, SBOMs, vulnerability scanning) is valued, but we care more about security instinct and appetite than a checklist of tools.
  • Understanding of CI/CD and build-system internals, container images and image hardening, and OCI registry mechanics.
  • Experience operating production infrastructure: on-call, incident response, SLOs, and the realities of keeping high-traffic services healthy.
  • Comfortable leading a distributed, remote-first team across European and US time zones, with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, and a habit of staying close to customers.
  • Hands-on familiarity with Go is a plus; it's the team's primary language.

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
  • Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

CA$244,550 - CA$392,150 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudDockerGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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