Senior Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About this role

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout.

We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.

Docker is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to serve as the technical visionary and architect for our Bridge organization—the foundational platform that powers accounts, billing, data, developer tools and enterprise governance across all Docker products. This is one of the most impactful individual contributor roles at Docker, responsible for defining and driving the technical strategy that enables Docker's transformation from a collection of individual products into a unified enterprise platform capable of supporting our next phase of growth.

As Senior Principal Engineer, you will establish strategic technical plans that span multiple engineering organizations, make critical architectural decisions that affect Docker's entire product portfolio, and drive execution of cross-company programs that directly enable revenue generation. You'll work at the intersection of Accounts, Billing, Data, Platform Infrastructure, Developer Tools and Enterprise Governance, ensuring these foundational systems work together seamlessly to support Docker's business model evolution from seat-based to usage-based pricing, our expansion into AI and security products, and our growth from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of enterprise customers.

This role requires someone who combines deep technical expertise across multiple domains with the business acumen to translate Docker's commercial strategy into platform capabilities. You'll be recognized across Docker as the definitive expert on platform architecture, consulted by executives on strategic technical decisions, and responsible for ensuring that every product team can launch enterprise-ready features rapidly because the platform handles the complexity underneath.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Vision & Strategic Planning

- Define and own the multi-year technical vision for Docker's foundational platform, encompassing accounts, billing, data, enterprise governance, and infrastructure

- Establish strategic plans and objectives for major platform initiatives, making architectural decisions that ensure effective achievement of Docker's business objectives

- Contribute to and drive the strategic vision in collaboration with the VP of Engineering, translating organizational strategy into technical roadmaps that span multiple teams and years

- Identify and prioritize platform investments that provide maximum leverage—capabilities built once that enable rapid iteration across all Docker products

- Develop architectural principles and standards that guide technical decisions across the Bridge organization and influence product engineering teams

- Anticipate future business needs and ensure platform architecture provides the flexibility to support Docker's evolving commercial models

Cross-Company Technical Leadership

- Lead large cross-company programs that require coordination across Desktop, Hub, AI, Security, Cloud, and Platform teams

- Architect the unified platform interfaces ("Control Planes") that enable product teams to answer canonical questions like "Can this user access this feature?" or "How much has this organization consumed?" without understanding underlying complexity

- Drive convergence of fragmented systems across Docker—replacing product-specific implementations with shared platform capabilities for authentication, authorization, billing, and observability

- Establish technical contracts between platform and product teams that enable independent velocity while ensuring consistency and reliability

- Lead architectural reviews for major initiatives across Docker, ensuring alignment with platform strategy and long-term maintainability

- Proactively identify and solve problems that impact critical areas of the business before they become blockers

Billing & Monetization Platform Architecture

- Architect the Billing Control Plane that enables Docker to launch new product SKUs in weeks instead of months

- Design the Usage-Based Billing platform that supports sophisticated pricing models combining base fees, per-seat charges, consumption pricing, and volume discounts

- Ensure billing architecture supports Docker's commercial flexibility—enabling bundle pricing, enterprise contract structures, and rapid pricing experimentation

- Define the metering infrastructure where products simply report usage events and the platform handles aggregation, rating, invoicing, and revenue recognition

- Architect billing systems that scale to support Docker's growth while maintaining the accuracy and audibility that enterprise customers and finance require

Accounts & Identity Platform Architecture

- Design the metadata-driven identity platform that serves as the single source of truth for authentication, authorization, and access control across all Docker products

- Architect account infrastructure that supports Docker's enterprise requirements—domain-based account ownership, organization lifecycle management, and namespace separation

- Define the Centralized Access Control Service that becomes the standard authorization point for all Docker products, replacing fragmented team-specific solutions

- Ensure identity architecture supports both consumer simplicity and enterprise complexity—from individual developers to org

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