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Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

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Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure in USA

  • Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement key components of Docker’s data platform while driving technical direction and engineering standards.
  • Build scalable real-time and batch data pipelines, high-throughput data systems, data transformations, models, orchestration workflows, and data APIs.
  • Use Snowflake, DBT, Apache Airflow, AWS, and Sigma to support analytics, business intelligence, and self-service reporting.
  • Optimize data platform performance, reliability, scalability, and infrastructure costs, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, testing, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
  • Translate analytics and product requirements into technical solutions and collaborate with cross-functional business, product, engineering, finance, sales, marketing, data science, and analyst stakeholders.
  • Ensure data governance, security, privacy, regulatory compliance, data quality, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor engineers, conduct technical design reviews, provide architecture feedback, share knowledge, and participate in hiring and technical assessments.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on data engineering.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong production experience with Snowflake, including SQL tuning, performance optimization, and cost management.
  • Proficiency with DBT, Apache Airflow, Python, and SQL for production-scale data engineering.
  • Experience with Sigma or similar modern BI platforms and AWS data services including S3, Redshift, EMR, Glue, Lambda, and Kinesis.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.
  • Experience designing large-scale distributed data systems, data warehouses, dimensional models, analytics architectures, stream processing, event-driven architectures, and real-time data systems.
  • Understanding of data governance, security standards, and privacy frameworks such as GDPR and CCPA.
  • Experience optimizing cloud data infrastructure performance and cost, mentoring engineers, leading technical projects without direct management authority, and collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience in high-growth technology or developer-tool companies, container technologies, Kubernetes, cloud-native development, machine learning platforms, MLOps, GCP, Azure, multi-cloud data strategies, data catalogs, metadata management, data lineage, advanced technical education, customer-facing analytics, embedded reporting, financial data systems, and revenue analytics.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work-from-home model with offices in Seattle and Paris for collaboration.
  • Flexible scheduling, generous PTO, quarterly Whaleness Days, and an end-of-year Whaleness break.
  • Home-office support and a technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net per month.
  • Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning.
  • Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
  • Equity for all full-time employees, comprehensive benefits including medical and retirement plans, paid holidays varying by country, and Docker swag.

Salary: $161k - $261k/yr

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