Principal Software Engineer, Docker Hardened Images
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Based in the United StatesFull-TimePrincipal
SalaryCompetitive compensation including base salary, bonus opportunities, and equity participation
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- KubernetesGoCI/CDDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend or platform engineering experience building production-grade distributed systems at scale.
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes and the broader cloud-native ecosystem.
- Deep understanding of container supply chain security concepts including SBOMs, signing, provenance, attestation, and SLSA frameworks.
- Proven ability to define multi-quarter technical roadmaps and align diverse stakeholders around architectural direction.
- Experience influencing engineering direction across multiple teams or organizations without formal authority.
- Strong programming fundamentals, with practical experience in Go and modern CI/CD and testing systems.
- Experience engaging with open-source communities and shaping upstream decisions in security-relevant domains.
- Ability to communicate complex technical strategy clearly across technical and executive audiences in distributed environments.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive multi-quarter technical roadmaps for container hardening, balancing security posture, upstream velocity, compliance requirements, and scalability.
- Identify systemic patterns across customers, operations, and upstream signals, translating them into platform-wide architectural improvements.
- Establish and evolve engineering standards for image creation, Helm chart adaptation, supply chain security (SBOM, SLSA, Sigstore), and release governance.
- Drive alignment across engineering, product, security, and executive stakeholders on complex technical strategy and sequencing.
- Represent the organization in critical customer engagements and open-source communities on topics related to secure container delivery.
- Shape platform tooling, CI/CD systems, and integration test strategies to ensure scalability, reliability, and high-quality releases.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers, raising the overall technical bar through design leadership, reviews, and architectural guidance.
- Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to resolving high-severity incidents while driving long-term reliability improvements.
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