Senior Software Engineer Backend – Remote

Location : Remote – US

About:

• The Docker Hub team develops and maintains the largest and most popular container registry service in the world today,
• Docker Hub. Millions of users – community developers, open-source projects, and Independent Software Vendors – push and pull Docker container images billions of times through Docker Hub.
• If you are an experienced BackEnd Software Engineer and want to play a critical role in the evolution of Docker Hub and Docker’s next chapter, then this role is for you.
• As a Senior Software Engineer in the Docker Hub team, you will build features around the container registry that operate reliably at a massive scale and deliver a differentiated experience for free and paid users of Docker Hub.
• You will develop microservices that offer new functionality to other services within Docker Hub’s service-oriented architecture besides enhancing existing services.
• You will be constantly seeking ways to improve the monitoring and reliability of the various Docker Hub services as well as CI/CD around the Docker Hub services to ensure we maintain a high level of quality with a fast pace of delivery.
• Finally, you should be passionate about how developers’ lives could be made easier, and about Docker’s role in that.

Responsibilities:

• Scale the world’s largest repository of container images
• Play an active role in product discussions, influence the roadmap and end user experience, take ownership and responsibility over new projects and features, and turn those ideas into reality
• Interact with other teams within Docker, as well as with upstream open source communities and our users
• Be ready to tackle high performance engineering challenges
• Participate in on-call rotations and improve reliability and availability of Docker Hub services
• Play an active role in improving the way Hub services are tested and deployed

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience building SaaS products with modern languages like Golang, Python or Java
• Understanding of the challenges of running a SaaS platform at global scale
• Good Written communication skills
• Ability to work remotely across time zones
• Solid API design skills (straightforward, unsurprising, defensible)
• Direct experience developing applications at web scale
• Proven ability to learn new technologies and languages, and to switch between them as necessary
• Follow good software engineering practices such as code review, source control, continuous integration and testing
• Ability to work in a team with other developers and partnering with User Experience experts, Product Management and Operations team

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with developing Microservices
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with modern monitoring and logging platforms
• Experience with database technologies and SQL