Senior Manager, Engineering, Coding Agent Sandboxes (US East Coast)

Docker Inc.

Job Overview

Location

USA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As the Senior Manager for Coding Agent Sandboxes at Docker Inc., you will lead a critical team responsible for building and maintaining secure, isolated execution environments essential for the autonomous operation of AI coding agents. This role is pivotal in ensuring that these advanced agents can function without compromising user systems or sensitive data, making it a safety-critical position with a profound impact on developer trust and security.
• You will be at the forefront of innovation within the Desktop & Core DX group, which is dedicated to enhancing the developer experience through products like Docker Desktop, Compose, CLI, Engine, and Testcontainers. Your team's work directly supports the core functionality that millions of developers rely on daily.
• The primary focus of your team will be the design, development, and operational excellence of sandboxed environments. This involves deep dives into systems engineering, infrastructure, and platform development, with a strong emphasis on robust isolation boundaries, absolute correctness in execution, and meticulous handling of potential failure modes.
• Your responsibilities will encompass the full spectrum of people management, including leading a distributed team of senior engineers across Europe and the United States. You will foster a collaborative and high-performing environment, ensuring seamless communication and alignment with both business objectives and product roadmaps.
• A key aspect of this role is driving predictable delivery and ensuring the highest standards of operational excellence for all components shipped by your team. This includes implementing and refining processes, monitoring system performance, and proactively addressing any issues that arise in production.
• You will be instrumental in facilitating cross-team communication, providing clear and concise status reporting for critical projects, and ensuring that stakeholders are well-informed of progress and potential challenges.
• Talent acquisition and retention are paramount. You will be responsible for hiring top-tier engineering talent, nurturing their growth, and creating an environment where senior engineers can thrive and contribute their best work.
• Maintaining a high bar for engineering excellence is non-negotiable. You will champion best practices, encourage continuous learning, and ensure that the team consistently delivers high-quality, reliable, and secure solutions.
• The role requires a strategic mindset, enabling you to align your team's efforts with overarching business and product goals. You will work closely with product management to translate strategic vision into actionable engineering plans.
• You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the group and team missions within your first 30 days, meeting key stakeholders and beginning to build rapport with your direct reports. You'll also develop a high-level understanding of existing Docker functionality and participate in status reporting.
• Within your first 90 days, you will collaborate with the team to define clear goals and success metrics, initiate career development discussions with your reports, and work on process improvements. You'll also have the opportunity to attend customer calls and oversee the delivery of a significant change or feature, potentially starting the hiring process if needed.
• By the end of your first year, you will have played a significant role in shaping the long-term technical direction of the team and demonstrably made a sustained, positive impact on the career growth and performance of your reports. Your leadership will be evident in the team's ability to deliver complex, safety-critical systems with reliability and confidence.
• This position offers a unique opportunity to lead a team at the cutting edge of AI integration in developer tools, contributing directly to Docker's mission of making app development easier and more accessible for developers worldwide. Your leadership will be crucial in navigating the complexities of secure AI execution environments and ensuring Docker remains the trusted platform for building, sharing, and running applications.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience directly managing high-performing engineering teams, coupled with an additional 5+ years of professional experience as an individual contributor software engineer.
• Strong background in systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with proven experience leading teams on complex, safety-critical, or reliability-focused systems.
• Ability to reason deeply about isolation, security boundaries, and failure modes in production systems.
• Must be currently located in the US, specifically within the Eastern time zone.

🏖️ Benefits

• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
• Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
• 16 weeks of paid Parental leave
• Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes

Skills & Technologies

Docker

Senior

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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