Principal Software Engineer, Developer Tools (US West Coast)
- Where you can live
- United States
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-5
- Salary
- USD 198,000 to 319,000 per year
- Posted
- June 26, 2026
Summary from the posting
As Principal Software Engineer, you'll partner with engineering leadership across Docker, principal engineers, Security, Infrastructure, and the service teams to author the SDLC tenets that underpin all of this work, and build the mechanisms those tenets run through.
Reporting to the Sr Manager of Developer Tools, you'll collaborate closely with engineering leadership across Docker, product engineering teams, platform teams, and ultimately customers as internal tools evolve into product offerings.
What Would Make Someone Successful in This Role
You're a technical leader who excels at the intersection of developer experience, platform engineering, and systems design.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Docker's own career page.