Manager, Engineering, Secure Build, SCS Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Lead Secure Build and SCS Services, taking ownership of delivery, team well-being, growth, performance, and operational excellence across both areas.

• Transform two evolving roadmaps into a unified portfolio plan with clear priorities, capacity, and trade-offs.

• Establish leadership coverage to ensure that neither team remains a permanent secondary priority.

• Collaborate with Product to shape strategies and roadmaps for secure build, Docker Scout, Docker Hardened Images, and connecting services.

• Stay engaged with technical work through design and code reviews, incident responses, and selective hands-on contributions.

• Ensure that the technical direction aligns with product, security, reliability, and customer priorities.

• Manage interfaces between teams, focusing on trust boundaries, contracts, data quality, versioning, operational ownership, and customer-facing failure modes.

• Balance new product development with inherited systems and on-call duties, investing in improvements to reliability.

• Oversee engineer growth and performance, manage challenging conversations, recruit and retain top talent, and develop succession depth.

• Align with Product, Design, Security, DHI Content, Registry, Hub, sales, support, commercial, and legal partners.

• Promote disciplined use of AI-assisted engineering and communicate decisions, risks, and progress across UK and US working hours.

• Build relationships and gain an understanding of both teams' products, customers, architecture, dependencies, and operational profiles in the first 30 days.

• Establish a sustainable operating cadence, ownership, and escalation pathways, along with significant improvements in the first 90 days.

• Deliver predictable outcomes connecting secure build, Scout, and Docker Hardened Images, while reducing operational risk over the course of one year.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 5 years of experience managing high-performing engineering teams, with significant responsibilities across multiple teams or distinct technical domains.

• More than 8 years of professional, hands-on software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, platform, or developer tooling.

• Proven experience in leading, developing, and retaining engineers at or above your own technical seniority, including managing teams you did not build and navigating difficult performance conversations.

• A leader-first operating model, combined with current technical judgment to engage in design and review across unfamiliar systems.

• Experience in prioritizing competing roadmaps, operational loads, and stakeholder commitments.

• Strong judgment in backend and distributed systems, including APIs, event-driven architectures, data stores, cloud-native infrastructure, and production operations.

• Knowledge of CI or build-system internals, containers, and artifact workflows, along with an interest in software supply-chain security and trust boundaries.

• Experience leading teams that operate production infrastructure through on-call duties, incident response, observability, SLOs, and the reduction of recurring operational loads.

• Strong product judgment and evidence of shaping roadmaps alongside Product teams.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, cross-functional influence, customer focus, and comfort leading a remote-first organization across European and US time zones.

• Familiarity with Go, Clojure, or both, as well as Kafka, Spanner, Datomic, OCI, BuildKit, Buildx, GitHub Actions, sandboxing, microVMs, untrusted workload execution, multi-tenant infrastructure, SLSA, in-toto, SBOMs, VEX, Sigstore, cosign, provenance, signing, or vulnerability scanning is advantageous but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first by design – Work from home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.

• Flexibility that suits your lifestyle – We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering excellent work.

• Time to recharge – Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a specified 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 assist with your work needs.

• Learning & development – Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and ongoing learning opportunities.

• Parental leave – 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.

• Equity for all full-time employees – Participate in Docker's long-term success as we continue to expand.

• Comprehensive benefits – Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country.

• Docker swag – Because representing the whale never gets old.

• Visa sponsorship considered on a case-by-case basis depending on business needs.