Senior Manager, Engineering (Seattle or West Coast Preferred)

Overview

Lead a team of engineers building Docker's shared Secrets platform, owning its technical direction, delivery and operational excellence within a remote-first environment.

What you'll do

• Lead a team of engineers building Docker's shared Secrets platform and own its technical direction.
• Partner closely with product management to align the team with business and product goals.
• Lead through influence across the teams that adopt the platform, making it their default way to handle credentials.
• Ensure predictable delivery and operational excellence, and own the team's on-call rotation and incident response.
• Hold a high bar for security and engineering excellence, partnering with Security on design reviews and threat models.
• Hire and retain top engineering talent.
• Facilitate communication across teams and provide status reporting for critical projects.

What you'll need

• 5+ years experience managing high-performing engineering teams.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building secure software and scale-out cloud services.
• Strong grounding in security fundamentals: authentication and authorization, secret and key management, and threat modeling.
• Experience reasoning about isolation and security boundaries for untrusted or semi-trusted workloads.
• Experience building platforms, SDKs, or shared services that other teams adopt, including enterprise requirements like audit and policy.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable with a high degree of autonomy and the ability to work remotely across time zones.

Details

• Location: Canada.
• Work mode: remote-first, with offices in Seattle and Paris available for connection and collaboration.
• Visa sponsorship is considered case-by-case based on business needs.
• Full-time role; all full-time roles include equity.