# Principal Software Engineer, AI Tools and Security (Seattle or SF Bay Area) at Docker

- Company: Docker
- What the company does: Run AI agents and containers safely, anywhere. Docker gives builders trusted sandboxes, governance, and a secure supply chain for modern software. Backed by Greylock, Insight and Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://www.docker.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $198K to $319K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-11-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/docker/a8adff9c-a58c-4881-95a2-b32115e375b3
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/docker-principal-software-engineer-ai-tools-and-security-seattle-or-sf-bay-area/

## About the role

This role may require participation in an on-call rotation to provide support outside of standard business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, as needed.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including extensive work on production-grade, distributed systems at scale
- Technical leadership across multiple teams or domains, with a proven ability to drive architectural vision, set technical direction, and influence long-term product strategy
- Exceptional product and platform mindset—you think beyond implementation details to how technology shapes developer and business outcomes
- Expertise in designing and evolving large-scale, cloud-native systems, with deep knowledge of distributed computing, service-oriented architecture, and performance optimization
- Demonstrated experience building secure, resilient, and high-throughput backend services, with a strong grasp of reliability engineering principles (SLOs, observability, incident response)
- Fluency in Go (preferred) or another modern systems language (Rust, Java, C++, etc.), with the ability to lead technical design reviews and mentor others in language-specific best practices

Tags: Engineering