Senior Software Engineer, Runtime Container Platform

Strong experience building systems in Go or deep experience in another systems language with willingness to work primarily in Go Solid background working in Linux environments Hands-on experience with container runtimes or low-level container technologies such as Docker Engine, containerd, or runc Experience working close to the container stack, including runtime, image building, networking, isolation, or similar areas Comfort working in large shared codebases and collaborating closely with other engineers Contributions to open source projects, especially CNCF or container-related projects Experience with virtualization technologies such as Firecracker, QEMU, VirtIO, or microVMs Knowledge of Linux internals including networking, kernel interfaces, or system performance Experience building developer tooling, CLIs, or platform infrastructure used by other teams

Design, build, and evolve core container runtime features in Go and Linux environments Work on foundational systems including Docker Engine, containerd, and related runtime components Maintain and improve large open source codebases Collaborate with other Docker teams to integrate runtime capabilities Partner with upstream open source communities and contributors Make thoughtful tradeoffs between performance, security, reliability, and developer experience