Senior Principal Engineer, Infrastructure

Senior Principal Engineer, Infrastructure Base pay range

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At Docker, we make app development easier so developers can focus on what matters. Our remote‑first team spans the globe, united by a passion for innovation and great developer experiences. With over 20 million monthly users and 20 billion image pulls, Docker is the #1 tool for building, sharing, and running apps—trusted by startups and Fortune 100s alike. We’re growing fast and just getting started.

Come join us for a whale of a ride! 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.

• 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

• 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…