[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Docker

Role Description

We are looking for one Engineering Manager to lead both teams. Together they sit at the centre of Docker's secure software supply-chain work:

• One creates trusted build outcomes.
• The other turns build, artifact and dependency data into services and experiences used across Scout and Docker Hardened Images.

This is a two-team leadership role with separate roadmaps, production responsibilities, and technical domains. The teams should deliver independently, with explicit contracts and joined-up ownership where their services connect.

You will own the health, delivery, and growth of both teams and make the trade-offs that keep them effective as a portfolio.

The kind of person we're looking for:

• The successful candidate leads first.
• They are an experienced engineering manager who can inherit two capable teams, earn trust quickly, and help each become a high-performing, value-delivering part of the wider Docker organisation.
• They care about security as a product and engineering property, not only as compliance.
• They grow the engineers around them and help both teams ship outcomes developers and enterprises can rely on.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, with meaningful responsibility across more than one team or distinct technical domain.
• 8+ years of professional, hands-on software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, platform or developer tooling.
• Experience leading, growing and retaining engineers at or above your own technical seniority.
• A leader-first operating model, with current enough technical judgement to participate in design and review across unfamiliar systems.
• Strong backend and distributed-systems judgement, including APIs, event-driven architectures, data stores, cloud-native infrastructure and production operations.
• Understanding of CI or build-system internals, containers and artefact workflows, plus a strong interest in software supply-chain security and trust boundaries.
• Clear written and verbal communication, strong cross-functional influence, customer closeness and comfort leading a remote-first organisation across European and US time zones.

Requirements

• Experience prioritising across competing roadmaps, operational load and stakeholder commitments.
• Experience leading teams that operate production infrastructure through on-call, incident response, observability, SLOs and the work required to reduce recurring operational load.
• Strong product judgement and evidence of shaping roadmaps with Product rather than only receiving requirements.

Benefits

• Remote-first by design – Work from your home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.
• Flexibility that fits your life – We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering great work.
• Time to recharge – Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break.
• Home office support – Set up your workspace for comfort and success.
• Technology stipend – Equivalent to US$100 net per month to help support your work.
• Learning & development – Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning.
• Parental leave – 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
• Equity for all full-time employees – Share in Docker's long-term success as we continue to grow.
• Comprehensive benefits – Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country.
• Docker swag – Because representing the whale never gets old.