# Staff Software Engineer, Docker AI Substrate (Seattle or Palo Alto) 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: Senior
- Location: Palo Alto, CA or Seattle, WA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $170K to $276K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-07
- Apply by: 2026-11-21
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/docker/675169de-3623-491d-a386-40160b694ef3?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/docker-staff-software-engineer-docker-ai-substrate-seattle-or-palo-alto/

## About the role

Design and build the systems that deploy, release, and operate Docker's agentic platform for enterprise customers, in Go and on Kubernetes. Make the platform run consistently across cloud providers and environments, with the security, identity, and network boundaries enterprises require. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Kubernetes beyond deployment. You have written controllers or operators, understand reconciliation and CRDs, and know why declarative beats imperative at fleet scale
- Deep in at least one major cloud. Hands-on with compute, networking, identity, and managed services, and able to pick up a second cloud fast
- Production ownership. On-call, incident response, SLOs, post-mortems. You run what you build
- Distributed systems design. Fault tolerance, consistency, observability, idempotent reconciliation
- Go. Professional proficiency. Docker's backend and all of this team's code is Go
- 10+ years of professional software engineering in infrastructure, platform, or cloud services, with the judgment to set direction for others

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/docker-staff-software-engineer-docker-ai-substrate-seattle-or-palo-alto/