Manager, Engineering, Secure Build and SCS Services (East Coast Preferred)

Docker is a globally distributed company building developer tools and secure infrastructure, including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, Docker Scout, and Docker Hardened Images. The Engineering Manager will lead the Secure Build and SCS Services teams, owning their delivery, health, growth, technical direction, operational excellence, and coordination across secure build and software supply-chain capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Secure Build and SCS Services, owning delivery, team health, growth, performance and operational excellence across both
• Turn two changing roadmaps into a coherent portfolio plan with explicit priorities, capacity and trade-offs, and create leadership coverage so neither team becomes the permanent second priority
• Partner with Product to shape strategy and roadmaps for secure build, Docker Scout, Docker Hardened Images and the services that connect them
• Stay close to the technical work through design and code review, incident response and selective hands-on contribution where it adds leverage
• Ensure each team's technical direction supports product, security, reliability and customer priorities, setting it collaboratively with Staff and senior engineers while leaving clear decision ownership with them
• Own the interfaces between the teams, including trust boundaries, contracts, data quality, versioning, operational ownership and customer-facing failure modes
• Balance new product work with inherited systems and on-call, and invest in reliability improvements driven by recurring operational pain
• Own engineer growth and performance, handle difficult conversations directly, hire and retain strong people and build succession depth within both teams
• Align Product, Design, Security, DHI Content, Registry, Hub, sales, support, commercial and legal partners while shielding the teams from churn
• Lead disciplined use of AI-assisted engineering and communicate decisions, risks and progress clearly across UK and US working hours
• Build relationships with every engineer and the Product partners for both teams before changing structure, process or roadmap
• Understand Secure Build's product direction, production estate and on-call load, including Docker Build Cloud and Docker Hub Automated Builds
• Understand the SCS Services products, customers, architecture and operational profile, and map the dependencies, trust boundaries and ownership lines between the teams
• Own a coherent portfolio plan with both teams and Product, including explicit capacity for roadmap, reliability and cross-team work
• Establish a sustainable operating cadence and leadership coverage that prevents either team depending on your constant presence
• Agree ownership and escalation paths for shared services and failures, start one material improvement in each team and make progress and risk visible
• Both teams deliver predictably against a portfolio that connects secure build, Scout and Docker Hardened Images outcomes without collapsing their distinct missions
• Secure Build has delivered material trusted-build or secure-CI capability and reduced operational risk in its inherited production systems
• SCS Services has delivered material customer outcomes, while both teams have sustainable on-call, clearer ownership and senior engineers leading broader work

Requirements:

• 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, including teams you did not build and difficult performance conversations
• A leader-first operating model, with current enough technical judgement to participate in design and review across unfamiliar systems without needing to be the best engineer in the room
• Experience prioritising across competing roadmaps, operational load and stakeholder commitments, with clear mechanisms for allocating attention and capacity
• 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
• 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
• Clear written and verbal communication, strong cross-functional influence, customer closeness and comfort leading a remote-first organisation across European and US time zones
• Experience with Go, Clojure or both, and evidence of becoming effective across a polyglot estate
• Experience with Kafka, Spanner, Datomic or comparable event-streaming and distributed-data systems
• Experience with OCI, BuildKit, Buildx, GitHub Actions or comparable build and CI platforms
• Experience with sandboxing, microVMs, untrusted workload execution or multi-tenant infrastructure
• Experience with SLSA, in-toto, SBOMs, VEX, Sigstore, cosign, provenance, signing or vulnerability scanning
• Experience evolving legacy systems while shipping new capability for developer tools, security products, regulated customers or software-agent workflows