Senior Software Engineer, Desktop Platform (US East Coast)

5+ years of experience building backend or systems software, ideally in Go or similar languages. Experience working on cross-platform desktop applications or lifecycle components (installers, updaters, system services). Demonstrated ability to design modular, maintainable system components that scale across teams. Comfortable working with observability, telemetry pipelines, performance metrics, and system health diagnostics. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work through ambiguity and cross-cutting technical challenges. Excellent communication skills for cross-team collaboration, design reviews, and technical documentation. Understanding of operating system internals, installers/updaters, virtualization, networking, or OS-level APIs. Experience with CI/CD systems, build pipelines, or release engineering workflows is a plus.

Design, develop, and maintain core lifecycle components of Docker Desktop, including installation, update, startup, and shared platform systems. Collaborate closely with product teams to ensure seamless integration with shared platform components. Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and technical discussions. Write high-quality code with strong test coverage and support healthy engineering practices. Collaborate with our Delivery team on CI, release pipeline reliability, and lifecycle automation improvements.