Senior Software Engineer, Tooling

Docker is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Platform Engineering team. The role builds a common framework for internal applications and delivers custom tools that support teams across the company, owning projects from scoping through rollout and adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain a framework that makes it fast to create and deploy internal applications and services, with defaults for authentication, hosting, CI/CD, logging, observability, and alerting
• Provide templates, documentation, and examples so teams can ship their own tools without starting from scratch
• Set the standards for how internal apps are built, secured, and run, and make the standard path the easiest one
• Leverage existing systems and sources of truth to build cross-connects where they don’t exist
• Work across teams and organizations to understand where tools, processes, or systems are falling short, and turn those gaps into proposals that platform leads can prioritize
• Scope and deliver apps and tooling to address identified gaps
• Ship early versions quickly, learn from how people use them, and improve them over time
• Own the tools you build through rollout, adoption, and ongoing support
• Evaluate whether a need is best met by building, buying, or integrating an existing product, and recommend one with the tradeoffs
• Connect tools to the systems the company already uses, such as identity, data sources, and Slack, so they work together
• Help shape the architecture of internal systems, so they stay consistent and maintainable as the company grows
• Build operational basics into the framework, so every internal app gets incident management, SLO, and alerting defaults automatically
• Use AI tooling to speed up delivery and to automate workflows where it adds value

Requirements:

• 6+ years of software engineering, including building and shipping internal tools or full-stack web applications
• Strong full-stack skills: a backend language such as Go, Python, or TypeScript, and a modern frontend framework
• Experience designing reusable frameworks, templates, or platforms that other engineers build on
• Experience deploying to the cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with containers and CI/CD, and working knowledge of Kubernetes
• Sound judgment on build, buy, and integrate decisions, and experience integrating third-party SaaS products and APIs
• Experience working directly with non-engineering stakeholders to turn a need into a working tool
• Experience with AI-assisted development or LLM-powered automation
• Clear written communication and comfort working asynchronously on a remote team
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Cross-functional experience in program management
• Experience with internal tool or developer portal platforms
• Web design experience
• Familiarity with observability and incident tooling (incident.io, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar)
• Experience at a developer tooling or SaaS company at scale, and familiarity with compliance and security standards