San Jose, CA
Remote
Senior
Full Time
💰$198,000 - $319,000
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Requirements
- •10+ years software engineering experience
- •4+ years in customer-facing technical role such as Forward Deployed Engineer or similar
- •Technical leadership across multiple engagements or teams
- •Expert production coding skills in Go, Python, or TypeScript
- •Deep hands-on Docker expertise including Dockerfiles, Docker Compose, image and registry operations, container networking and security
- •Hands-on experience building with LLMs and agents in production including MCP server and client implementation
- •Working knowledge of software supply chain security including SBOMs, image signing, vulnerability management, and secure CI/CD
- •Experience integrating with enterprise systems including identity providers, federated identity protocols, secrets managers, Kubernetes, and major cloud platforms
- •Ability to scope and deliver complex work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- •Excellent communication skills with engineers, security teams, and executives
- •Proven track record of technical mentorship
- •High agency and comfort operating autonomously in remote-first teams
- •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
- •Willingness to travel up to 50% to customer sites
What You'll Do
- •Embed with customer engineering teams to design, build, and ship solutions from prototype through production rollout
- •Deliver working technical artifacts to customers including custom MCP servers, Docker Compose definitions, hardened image standardization, and new tools
- •Integrate Docker's AI platform with customer's existing stack including identity providers, secrets management, registries, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tooling
- •Own technical delivery on engagements including scoping, sequencing, trade-offs, and removing blockers
- •Translate customer security, compliance, and platform requirements into concrete plans and execute them
- •Help customers define controls for safe and governable AI adoption
- •Establish quality and performance standards and work with Product and Engineering to address issues
- •Partner with customer security and platform teams for architecture review and threat modeling
- •Work closely with Solutions Architects to enable off-the-shelf or bespoke solutions
- •Feed implementation learnings back into reference architectures and success patterns
- •Support field with technical depth during proofs of concept and escalations
- •Collaborate with Product and Engineering to integrate FDE innovations into products and services
- •Provide data-driven feedback to Product and Engineering to influence roadmap
- •Define FDE engagement model, delivery standards, and quality bar
- •Mentor and lead other Forward Deployed Engineers and participate in hiring
- •Act as senior technical escalation point for hardest customer problems
- •Maintain deep knowledge of agentic AI stack including LLMs, APIs, MCP, coding agents, evaluation approaches, and deployment patterns
- •Participate in on-call rotation for support outside standard business hours
Nice to Have
- •Experience with Docker Hardened Images, Docker Scout, MCP Gateway, MCP Toolkit, Docker Sandboxes, or Docker Model Runner
- •Experience deploying and operating coding agents in team or enterprise settings
- •Experience with air-gapped, regulated, or compliance-driven environments in financial services, healthcare, government, or similar sectors
- •Contributions to open source projects in container, Kubernetes, or MCP ecosystems
- •Prior experience founding or scaling a Forward Deployed Engineering or Professional Services practice
Benefits
- •Remote-first by design with offices in Seattle and Paris
- •Flexible schedule management
- •Generous PTO and designated Whaleness Days and end-of-year break
- •Home office support
- •Technology stipend of US$100 net per month
- •Annual learning and development stipend
- •16 weeks paid parental leave after six months
- •Equity for all full-time employees
- •Comprehensive medical, retirement, and paid holidays benefits varying by country
- •Docker swag
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