Principal Software Engineer, Docker Hardened Images

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DockerContainer security

Location: Canada Secondary Locations: United States Workplace: RemoteFull-TimePrincipal

SalaryCanada: CA$245,913 – CA$397,139 + equity United States: $180,500 – $291,500 + equity

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Bring 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including extensive work on production-grade distributed systems at scale.
Have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Set multi-quarter technical roadmaps and align engineering, product, and executive stakeholders on strategy and tradeoffs.
Bring deep expertise in the container and Kubernetes ecosystem, including the ability to reason about projects such as cert-manager, Kyverno, Grafana, and Istio at the ecosystem level.
Demonstrate mastery of container supply chain security concepts, including provenance, attestation, SBOM, signing, and SLSA.
Have strong software engineering fundamentals in code review, testing, source control, CI/CD, and Go.
Show a track record of technical influence without authority across multiple teams or organizations, including through design docs, standards, review, and mentorship.
Have experience navigating upstream OSS communities as a decision-maker and shaping direction on security-relevant issues.
Be comfortable working across remote, distributed teams and communicating technical strategy to technical and non-technical audiences.

Own the architecture for Docker Hardened Images as a platform, including how images and Helm charts are authored, secured, distributed, and evolved.
Define and drive multi-quarter technical roadmaps for the container hardening domain.
Translate customer, operational, and upstream signals into architectural changes across the catalogue.
Build alignment across teams and executives on technical strategy, tradeoffs, and sequencing.
Represent Docker in escalations, enterprise customer engagements, and upstream OSS communities.
Set and evolve standards for image definition, Helm chart adaptation, hardening strategy, and supply chain tooling.
Drive complex packaging decisions involving upstream dynamics, security tradeoffs, multi-arch constraints, and customer impact.
Shape integration test infrastructure and developer tooling strategy.
Mentor staff and senior engineers through review, design, and architectural decisions.
Take part in the paid on-call rotation, respond to incidents, debug production issues, and drive reliability improvements.

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