Senior or Staff Software Engineer (Docker Agents)

About the Role

Join Docker's AI engineering team as a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to build the future of containerized AI agents. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape how developers leverage containers for AI agents at massive scale, working on our open-source cagent project.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and expansion of the cagent open-source project.
• Design and implement solutions enabling developers to build, deploy, and scale intelligent AI agents using Docker's container technology.
• Drive architectural decisions for containerized AI agent platforms.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior or Staff Software Engineer.
• Strong expertise with containerization technologies, especially Docker.
• Experience or strong interest in AI/ML agent development.
• Familiarity with open-source project contributions and best practices.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, distributed team environment across Europe.

About the Team and Role Impact

• Collaborate with a team of seasoned engineers and cross-functional sister teams (e.g., Ask Gordon, Docker's AI platform).
• Contribute to a high-impact, greenfield initiative that will define how developers interact with AI agents using containers.
• Work on a product used by over 20 million monthly users, impacting startups and Fortune 100s.