Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Docker Agents

at Docker, Inc

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer, Docker Agents
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: €89,000 - €155,650 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Docker, Kubernetes, Open Source, Python, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Paris, France

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer joining Docker's AI team to build containerized AI agents. Collaborating on cutting-edge technologies for scalable and intelligent agent deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement systems that leverage Docker containers as the ideal runtime for AI agents
• Maintain and evolve the open-source Docker Agent project, adding new capabilities for containerized agent deployment and orchestration
• Build robust infrastructure for packaging, deploying, and managing agents in containers
• Enhance agent capabilities with Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems to provide contextual knowledge and domain expertise (secondary focus)
• Design robust evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance, reliability, and containerized deployment effectiveness
• Iterate quickly on new agent capabilities and deployment patterns, moving from concept to production efficiently
• Engage with the Docker Agent community, review contributions, and help grow the ecosystem
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers across Docker's AI teams to integrate containerized agent capabilities into Docker's developer experience
• Take part in on-call rotation for your team; respond to incidents, debug production issues, and drive continuous improvement of system reliability

Requirements

• 6+ years of directly applicable experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong proficiency in Go is highly desired
• Practical experience with large language models (LLMs) and agent development
• Proven ability to design scalable, distributed systems
• Deep understanding of Docker, containerization best practices, and container orchestration
• Experience building Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems (secondary focus)
• Demonstrated ability to prototype quickly and iterate based on feedback
• Experience with CrewAI, AGNO, ADK, LangChain/LangGraph or similar AI orchestration frameworks (preferred)
• Experience with Python for AI prototyping and tooling (preferred)
• Experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms (preferred)
• Open source contributions and community engagement (preferred)
• Experience with agent evaluation, reliability, and observability techniques (preferred)

Benefits

• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
• Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
• Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
• 16 weeks of paid Parental leave
• Technology stipend equivalent to $100 net/month
• PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
• Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
• Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
• Docker Swag
• Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
• Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris