Manager, Engineering, Secure Build

Docker Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Canada

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead a team of senior engineers responsible for Docker Build Cloud and Docker Hub’s build systems, which process millions of container builds annually for hundreds of organizations.
• Own the delivery of a high-stakes, ambiguous roadmap that includes time-bound commitments to regulated and federal customers, translating strategy into predictable, executable plans.
• Partner closely with Product to co-create a roadmap the team believes in, ensuring alignment between technical execution and business objectives.
• Stay deeply involved in technical design discussions, code reviews, and hands-on development where it accelerates progress—active in PRs and system architecture, not detached from the codebase.
• Collaborate with engineers who lead different parts of the system to jointly set technical direction, fostering a culture of shared ownership rather than top-down decision-making.
• Maintain operational excellence for production systems, including managing a humane, sustainable on-call rotation that covers evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed.
• Be accountable for the reliability, security hygiene, and performance of high-scale, production-grade infrastructure supporting secure, sandboxed CI workflows.
• Drive the growth, development, and performance of each engineer on the team, including conducting difficult performance conversations with fairness and directness.
• Hire senior engineers to strengthen the team’s technical depth and capacity, focusing on candidates who thrive in autonomous, remote-first environments.
• Work cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Commercial, Legal, Hub/Registry, and Security teams to align priorities and shield the team from organizational churn.
• Raise the team’s bar for engineering excellence, particularly around security: understanding modern attack vectors, OWASP Top 10, and build pipeline exposure points.
• Build and operate Docker’s next-generation secure build infrastructure, including a hardened build runner that executes each workflow step inside a micro-VM sandbox.
• Ensure build outputs have strong, verifiable provenance, including support for SLSA, in-toto, cosign, SBOMs, and vulnerability scanning in regulated and air-gapped environments.
• Maintain deep familiarity with CI/CD internals, container image formats, OCI registry mechanics, and software supply chain security practices.
• Foster a culture of autonomy, judgment, and unblocking over rigid process, enabling senior engineers to own technical decisions while providing clear direction.
• Be energized by ambiguity and operational complexity, with a proven ability to lead through uncertainty in high-traffic, mission-critical systems.
• Communicate clearly and frequently with customers and stakeholders, maintaining a habit of staying close to user needs and real-world usage patterns.
• Contribute to a remote-first, globally distributed team spanning European and US time zones with a high degree of independence and self-direction.
• Maintain hands-on familiarity with Go, the team’s primary programming language, and be willing to write code to unblock progress or improve system quality.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, including engineers at or above their own level of technical seniority
• 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
• Comfortable inheriting and leading a team they didn’t build, earning trust from experienced engineers and managing performance conversations directly
• Technically deep and still hands-on: recent engineering experience to actively participate in design and code review, not detached from technical detail
• Strong interest in security: understanding of OWASP Top 10, build threat models, and software supply chain security concepts (SLSA, in-toto, cosign, SBOMs)

🏖️ Benefits

• Freedom & flexibility to fit work around life
• Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end-of-year Whaleness break
• Home office setup allowance
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
• Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
• Equity in the company

Skills & Technologies

Docker

Design

Remote

Degree Required

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About Docker Inc.

Docker Inc. provides an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications inside lightweight containers. Its tools package software and dependencies into portable units that run consistently across environments, accelerating DevOps workflows and cloud-native development. The company offers Docker Desktop, Hub, and subscription services that integrate with CI/CD pipelines and orchestration platforms, enabling teams to build, share, and deploy microservices at scale while maintaining security and governance policies.

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