Software Engineer, Infrastructure Platform

Qualifications

Core Engineering Skills (must-have)

• 4+ years of backend software engineering experience building large-scale cloud or distributed systems
• Strong software development skills in Go or a similar language, including design, testing, debugging, and code review.
• Experience shipping and operating cloud services in production, often 3+ years. We hire for skill and impact, not years alone.
• Solid foundation in Linux, networking fundamentals, and cloud security.
• Experience building operational automation, including AI-assisted or agentic workflows, with an emphasis on safety, guardrails, and auditability.
• Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment, including RFCs, incident writeups, and async collaboration.

Nice-to-have

• Kubernetes and EKS experience, plus ingress, CNI, service mesh, and familiarity with L4 and L7 load balancing.
• Observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, plus alerting and SLO practice.
• CI/CD and progressive delivery, including GitHub Actions or Argo CD, canaries, and automated rollback.
• Cost optimization at scale, including FinOps and capacity modeling.
• Distributed systems, containers, and Go-based platform tooling.

We value depth in one area and curiosity across others, and we will help you grow in the rest.

What to ExpectFirst 30 Days

• Ship your first change to a Terraform module or internal service and learn how we operate.
• Shadow on-call and build context on our platform and reliability priorities.

First 90 Days

• Own a component and deliver an improvement from design to production with measurable impact.
• Join the on-call rotation and contribute effectively during your shifts.

First Year

• Lead or co-lead a meaningful platform initiative, with scope that scales by level, and help reduce toil through automation.
• Become a trusted contributor in one or more areas such as platform services, Kubernetes and networking foundations, or reliability automation.

Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.