About this role
ABOUT DOCKER
Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout.
We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.
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Docker is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to serve as the technical visionary and architect for how software gets built, verified, and trusted.
Every day, millions of developers pull images, install dependencies, and ship builds to production. Each of those steps is a place where something can go wrong, or be made to go wrong. Compromised base images, malicious packages, tampered build steps, unsigned artifacts moving through pipelines nobody is watching. The industry calls this the software supply chain, and it has become one of the most consequential unsolved problems in software engineering.
Docker sits at the exact center of it. We are the layer where builds happen. That gives us a rare opportunity, and a real obligation, to make secure software delivery the default rather than an afterthought bolted on at the end.
This role sits in Docker and Ecosystems, the group that owns Docker’s most well known products and our emerging content and SDLC business. You will own the technical strategy for secure software delivery across all of it, defining what verifiable, tamper-resistant software delivery looks like at Docker's scale, then driving the architecture that makes it real for every developer and every enterprise customer using our products.
This is one of the highest-leverage individual contributor roles at the company. You will set multi-year technical direction, make architectural decisions that shape Docker's product portfolio, and work directly with the SVP of Engineering and executive team on strategy. You will not manage people. You will change what the industry considers table stakes.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Vision and Strategy
- Own the multi-year technical vision for Docker's build security and software supply chain capabilities, spanning Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, Docker Hardened Images, Docker Verified Publishing, and the platforms that monetize them
- Define what "trusted by default" means architecturally for a product used by 20 million developers, then sequence the work to get there
- Translate Docker's commercial strategy into platform capabilities, partnering with the SVP of Engineering to turn organizational strategy i