Senior Engineering Manager, Security

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Engineering Manager (Security)

• Team: Secrets platform for sandboxed agent workflows

• Work style: Remote-first (Seattle office available)

Description

Lead a team of engineers building Docker’s shared Secrets platform, owning its technical direction and delivery. You’ll partner with product and security to maintain a high security bar for authentication, secret/key handling, and threat modeling, while ensuring operational excellence and on-call readiness. The platform enables trusted sandboxed workflows where agents cannot leak secrets they never see.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineers building Docker’s shared Secrets platform and own its technical direction

• Partner with product management to align delivery with business and product goals

• Drive adoption of the platform across teams so it becomes the default way to handle credentials

• Ensure predictable delivery and operational excellence; own the team’s on-call rotation and incident response

• Maintain a high security and engineering bar; 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

Requirements

• 5+ years experience managing high-performing engineering teams

• 5+ years hands-on experience building secure software

• 5+ years hands-on experience building scale-out cloud services

• Strong security fundamentals: authentication and authorization, secret and key management, threat modeling

• Experience reasoning about isolation and security boundaries for untrusted or semi-trusted workloads

• Experience building platforms, SDKs, or shared services adopted by other teams (incl. enterprise audit/policy needs)

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Comfortable with high autonomy and remote work across time zones

Benefits

• Remote-first by design; flexibility to manage your schedule

• Work from home with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration

• Generous PTO, quarterly “Whaleness Days,” and an end-of-year “Whaleness” break

• Home office support and technology stipend (~US$100 net/month)

• Learning and development annual stipend

• 16 weeks paid parental leave after six months of employment

• Equity for all full-time employees

• Comprehensive medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country