Manager, Engineering, Secure Build

Docker

1d•CA$244,550 - CA$392,150•Remote

About The Position

Docker is a leading brand in developer tooling, used by millions of users and large companies to build, share, and run applications. The company is a remote-first, globally distributed team focused on the future of software development, especially with the rise of AI agents. The Secure Build team is responsible for the infrastructure behind Docker's container builds, including Docker Build Cloud and Docker's Hub build systems. They are developing the next generation of secure, sandboxed CI that produces hardened images with verifiable provenance, suitable for regulated environments. A key focus is a hardened build runner using micro-VM sandboxes for each workflow step. This role involves leading a small, senior team that has recently formed. The Engineering Manager will be responsible for the team's delivery, growth, and operational excellence, ensuring the health of high-scale production systems, and contributing to the team's technical direction alongside the engineers.

Requirements

5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, including engineers at or above their own level of technical seniority, with a track record of growing and retaining senior individual contributors.
8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
A leader first: strong on team process and mechanics, on partnering with Product, and on reading and navigating the personalities on and around a team to make it more than the sum of its parts.
Comfortable inheriting a team they didn't build: earning the trust of experienced engineers, and owning the full range of performance conversations, including the difficult ones, fairly and directly.
Technically deep and still hands-on: recent enough engineering chops to be active in design and code review, be a real part of setting technical direction with the team, and write code where it helps. Not the best engineer in the room or the deepest domain expert, but not a manager who's left the technical detail behind either.
A strong interest in security: how recent attacks have actually worked, the OWASP Top 10, and the build threat model. Familiarity with software supply chain security (SLSA, in-toto, provenance, signing such as cosign, SBOMs, vulnerability scanning) is valued, but we care more about security instinct and appetite than a checklist of tools.
Understanding of CI/CD and build-system internals, container images and image hardening, and OCI registry mechanics.
Experience operating production infrastructure: on-call, incident response, SLOs, and the realities of keeping high-traffic services healthy.
Comfortable leading a distributed, remote-first team across European and US time zones, with a high degree of autonomy.
Strong written and verbal communication, and a habit of staying close to customers.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on familiarity with Go is a plus; it's the team's primary language.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of senior engineers operating Docker Build Cloud and Hub's build systems and building Docker's next generation of secure build infrastructure.
Own delivery: turn an ambiguous, high-stakes roadmap, including time-bound commitments to regulated and federal customers, into a concrete plan the team can execute predictably.
Get the team's process and mechanics right, and partner closely with Product to turn strategy into a roadmap the team believes in.
Stay deep in the technical work: active in design discussions and code review, hands-on in the code where it helps, rather than steering from a distance.
Be a real part of setting the team's technical direction, working with the engineers who lead on different parts of the system, while giving the whole team room to own technical decisions.
This role may require participation in an on-call rotation to provide support outside of standard business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, as needed.
Be accountable for the reliability and operational excellence of the team's production services, including a healthy, humane on-call rotation.
Own the growth, development, and performance of each engineer on the team, and hire to strengthen it.
Work across the wider org - Product, sales, commercial and legal, the Hub/registry team, and security - to align the team and shield it from churn.
Hold a high bar for engineering excellence and raise the team's security hygiene.

Benefits

Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
Docker Swag
Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country