Lead Full Stack Developer providing technical direction and mentoring junior developers at RBC. Collaborating on innovative payment solutions for commercial clients.
About the role
- Staff Software Engineer at Docker developing the runtime for AI workloads. Building container solutions to enable trustworthy autonomous workflows across platforms.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain the filesystem and container runtime components of Docker's local runtime stack.
- Investigate and resolve correctness, performance, and stability issues in the filesystem layer across macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- Work on VirtioFS, OverlayFS, and related filesystem technologies to improve performance and reliability for AI agent workloads.
- Contribute to containerd integration and OCI-compliant container lifecycle management.
- Collaborate with peers on the team to evolve the architecture of the runtime as requirements grow.
- Engage with the open source community on filesystem and container runtime related projects.
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to critical stability issues affecting users.
- Document your work clearly and share knowledge with the rest of the team.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in systems programming with a focus on filesystems or container runtimes.
- 6+ 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
- Deep understanding of filesystem semantics: POSIX, VFS, virtual filesystems (FUSE, VirtioFS), and overlay filesystems.
- Experience with container technologies: OCI image spec, containerd, runc, or equivalent low-level container infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Go and/or Rust; comfort reading and modifying C where necessary.
- Experience debugging complex, cross-platform issues with kernel and userspace components.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy in a remote-first environment.
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
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