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Lead the technical vision and architecture for scalable, secure, high-performance distributed systems. Provide engineering leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance while driving reliability, automation, CI/CD, security, performance optimization, and technical strategy. Investigate emerging technologies, oversee complex problem-solving, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with product and business stakeholders to align technology roadmaps with organizational goals.

Own and scale lifecycle marketing programs across Docker’s Container and AI products. Build email and in-product campaigns, automate PQL and renewal motions, validate audiences and usage signals, manage suppressions, perform QA, monitor launches, troubleshoot data issues, translate technical signals into messaging, and operationalize reporting. Partner with data, sales, renewals, design, and agency teams while sequencing priorities into a scalable lifecycle roadmap.

Lead Docker’s Secure Build and SCS Services teams, owning delivery, team health, technical direction, operational excellence, hiring, and engineer development. Shape portfolio priorities across secure build, Docker Scout, and Docker Hardened Images while balancing roadmap work, reliability, on-call, and stakeholder commitments. Partner with Product and cross-functional teams, guide distributed-systems and infrastructure decisions, oversee incidents and production operations, and establish clear ownership across team interfaces. The role requires strong backend engineering judgment, software supply-chain security understanding, and leadership across remote European and US teams.

Lead design and delivery of self-service platform capabilities: provisioning, deployment, observability, and multi-region networking. Drive RFCs and cross-team alignment, build APIs (primarily in Go), implement Terraform/GitOps flows, improve EKS reliability and Grafana-based SLOs, and reduce operational toil via safe, auditable automation. Own on-call rotation and platform adoption outcomes.

Leads Sales Operations architecture, territory design, segmentation, quota allocation, annual planning, sales technology strategy, and operational initiatives. Manages Salesforce, Clari, Outreach, and related vendors, budgets, and roadmaps while partnering with senior Sales and GTM leaders. Directly manages and develops a team, ensuring data integrity, process precision, and effective execution across sales operations workstreams.

Lead technical vision and architecture for Dockers Developer Tools: build a self-service internal platform, CI/CD and build systems, integrate AI/LLM agents, set SDLC tenets, establish standards for observability, security, reliability, and productize internal tooling into customer offerings.

Lead and implement backend and developer-experience initiatives across Clojure and Go systems. Define architecture, build and operate distributed services, event pipelines, databases and APIs, improve observability and reliability, mentor senior engineers, and drive cross-team delivery from ambiguity to measurable outcomes while participating in on-call rotation.

Design, build, and operate Go-based services powering Docker's secure build and CI infrastructure. Deliver isolation, identity, policy, provenance, attestation and signing capabilities, improve reliability of Docker Build Cloud and Auto Builds, own features end-to-end, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate with product, security, and platform teams to produce secure, reproducible developer and agent workflows.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll develop, deploy, and monitor microservices, enforce security policies, and improve automation tooling.

Design, build, and own disposable isolated microVM sandboxes and related runtime infrastructure for AI coding agents. Improve reliability, performance, and security across macOS, Windows, and Linux; lead architecture, mentor engineers, engage open-source communities, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with Product and adjacent teams.