Staff Software Engineer, Billing

The posting, as Docker wrote it

ABOUT DOCKER

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout.

We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.

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THE ROLE

We're building AI-native development practices into how this team works at a foundational level. That means infrastructure design needs to account for a new kind of collaborator: AI agents that generate, deploy, and operate software. The Staff Infrastructure Engineer on this team will keep systems running, define what safe, observable, AI-assisted infrastructure operations look like in practice, and set the standard for how the broader engineering organization follows.

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WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

The Billing Platform Engineering team owns the systems that make Docker's commercial model real. You'll work on problems like:

• How do we design infrastructure that makes AI-generated deployments safe to ship and easy to roll back?
• How do we instrument billing systems so that failures — billing miscalculations, entitlement gaps, payment errors — are detected immediately and unambiguously?
• How do we build infrastructure that scales with usage-based billing workloads without manual intervention?
• How do we make the developer experience on this team faster and more reliable — local environments, CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling?

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RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own and evolve the infrastructure supporting Billing Platform services: compute, storage, networking, CI/CD, and observability
• Design and maintain IaC (Terraform) for billing system infrastructure on AWS; set module patterns and standards for the team
• Build and own observability systems — metrics, logging, alerting — with a focus on billing accuracy and payment reliability
• Define deployment patterns and runbooks that work well in an AI-agent-assisted development workflow: clear rollback procedures, safe promotion gates, automated validation
• Partner with software engineers on service design — bringing infrastructure constraints and operational requirements into the conversation before code is written
• Identify systemic risks and drive improvements that span team or organizational boundaries
• Lead incident response for billing system issu

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COMPENSATION & EQUITY

All full-time roles include equity. Final compensation is determined on factors including but not limited to experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

United States: $170,350 – $275,550 base

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POSTING INFORMATION

• Open vacancy: This posting is for an existing open role.
• AI in hiring: Docker may use AI-assisted tools during our recruiting process.
• Interview recordings: Candidates will be invited to opt in to interview recordings to support interviewer calibration and consistent evaluations. Recordings are optional and require explicit consent.

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PERKS & BENEFITS

• Remote-first by design – Work from your home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.
• Flexibility that fits your life – We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering great work.
• Time to recharge – Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break.
• Home office support – Set up your workspace for comfort and success.
• Technology stipend – Equivalent to US$100 net per month to help support your work.
• Learning & development – Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning.
• Parental leave – 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
• Equity for all full-time employees – Share in Docker's long-term success as we continue to grow.
• Comprehensive benefits – Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country.
• Docker swag – Because representing the whale never gets old.

Docker is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe diverse teams build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our global community.

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