Senior Manager, Engineering (Seattle or West Coast Preferred)

The role

You will manage the Secrets team, owning its technical direction, delivery, and operational excellence. You will lead engineers building Docker's shared Secrets platform to provide secure sandboxed environments for agentic workflows.

What you will do

• Lead a team of engineers building Docker's shared Secrets platform and own its technical direction.
• Partner closely with product management to align the team with business and product goals.
• Lead through influence across the teams that adopt the platform.
• Ensure predictable delivery and operational excellence.
• Own the team's on-call rotation and incident response.
• Hold a high bar for security and engineering excellence.
• Partner with Security on design reviews and threat models.
• Hire and retain top engineering talent.
• Facilitate communication across teams and provide status reporting for critical projects.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years experience managing high-performing engineering teams.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building secure software and scale-out cloud services.
• Strong grounding in security fundamentals: authentication and authorization, secret and key management, and threat modeling.
• Experience reasoning about isolation and security boundaries for untrusted or semi-trusted workloads.
• Experience building platforms, SDKs, or shared services that other teams adopt, including enterprise requirements like audit and policy.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable with a high degree of autonomy and the ability to work remotely across time zones.

Nice to have

• Seattle or West Coast Preferred

Benefits

• Remote-first by design
• Flexibility that fits your life
• Generous PTO
• Designated quarterly Whaleness Days
• Designated end-of-year Whaleness break
• Home office support
• Technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net per month
• Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment
• Equity for all full-time employees
• Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country
• Docker swag

Before you apply

• Docker considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.
• Docker may use AI-assisted tools during our recruiting process.
• Candidates will be invited to opt in to interview recordings.

About the company

Docker is a globally distributed, remote-first team building tools that define how software gets built and delivered. Their products include Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout.