Staff Software Engineer, Secrets Management

Quick Facts

• Remote-first role with collaboration across Seattle and Paris
• Focus on building core security systems for sandboxed agentic workloads
• US base compensation range: $170,350 – $275,550 (plus equity)

Description

Design and build scalable, reliable, and secure secrets management and credential injection systems that keep user credentials and sensitive secrets confined to the sandbox layer. You’ll improve Docker’s security posture for agentic platforms and AI governance products across cloud and desktop environments. Work includes cross-team architecture evolution, incident response, and engineering mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and lead improvements to secrets management and credential injection systems
• Investigate and resolve security, correctness, performance, and stability issues across cloud, macOS, Windows, and Linux
• Collaborate with Product and adjacent teams to evolve architecture as requirements grow
• Mentor engineers and set high standards in design reviews and code reviews
• Engage with the open source and agentic development community around sandboxing and related ecosystems
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to critical stability issues
• Document work clearly and share knowledge with the team

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• Experience building developer tools, desktop applications, or runtime infrastructure used directly by developers
• Familiarity with agentic development ecosystem and how coding agents interact with their environment
• Ability to reason about isolation and security boundaries and design safe defaults
• Experience driving architecture and technical strategy across multiple engineers or teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously in a remote-first environment

Benefits

• Equity for all full-time employees
• Remote-first flexibility and home office support
• Technology stipend (US$100 net per month)
• Learning & development stipend for conferences, courses, certifications
• Generous PTO and designated “Whaleness” days/break
• 16 weeks paid parental leave after six months of employment
• Comprehensive medical and retirement benefits (varies by country)