Manager, Engineering, Secure Build and SCS Services (East Coast or England Preferred)

The role

This Engineering Manager will lead the Secure Build and SCS Services teams. You will own the delivery, health, and growth of both teams while managing their technical domains and roadmaps.

What you will do

• Lead Secure Build and SCS Services, owning delivery, team health, growth, performance and operational excellence.
• Turn two changing roadmaps into a coherent portfolio plan with explicit priorities and capacity.
• Partner with Product to shape strategy and roadmaps for secure build, Docker Scout, and Docker Hardened Images.
• Stay close to technical work through design and code review, incident response and selective hands-on contribution.
• Ensure technical direction supports product, security, reliability and customer priorities.
• Own the interfaces between the teams, including trust boundaries, contracts, and data quality.
• Balance new product work with inherited systems and on-call.
• Own engineer growth and performance, including hiring and retaining strong people.
• Align Product, Design, Security, DHI Content, Registry, Hub, sales, support, commercial and legal partners.
• Lead disciplined use of AI-assisted engineering.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, with meaningful responsibility across more than one team or distinct technical domain
• 8+ years of professional, hands-on software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, platform or developer tooling
• Experience leading, growing and retaining engineers at or above your own technical seniority
• A leader-first operating model with current enough technical judgement to participate in design and review
• Experience prioritising across competing roadmaps, operational load and stakeholder commitments
• Strong backend and distributed-systems judgement, including APIs, event-driven architectures, data stores, cloud-native infrastructure and production operations
• Understanding of CI or build-system internals, containers and artefact workflows
• Experience leading teams that operate production infrastructure through on-call, incident response, observability and SLOs
• Strong product judgement and evidence of shaping roadmaps with Product
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Strong cross-functional influence, customer closeness and comfort leading a remote-first organisation across European and US time zones

Nice to have

• Experience with Go, Clojure or both
• Experience with Kafka, Spanner, Datomic or comparable event-streaming and distributed-data systems
• Experience with OCI, BuildKit, Buildx, GitHub Actions or comparable build and CI platforms
• Experience with sandboxing, microVMs, untrusted workload execution or multi-tenant infrastructure
• Experience with SLSA, in-toto, SBOMs, VEX, Sigstore, cosign, provenance, signing or vulnerability scanning
• Experience evolving legacy systems while shipping new capability for developer tools, security products, regulated customers or software-agent workflows

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 may 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. The brand is trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls.