Senior Manager of Engineering (Local Runtime)

Join Docker as a Senior Manager of Engineering, leading a team focused on building a cross-platform runtime for AI workloads. You will own the technical direction and roadmap, partner with product management, ensure predictable delivery, and hire top engineering talent. The role requires a strong background in systems programming, experience managing high-performing teams, and cross-platform systems experience. Benefits include 100% company-paid medical premiums, flexible time off, generous parental leave, and more.

• Lead a team of engineers in building Docker's cross-platform runtime for AI workloads, ensuring technical direction and delivery.
• Partner closely with product management to align the engineering team with business and product goals, ensuring predictable delivery.
• Drive the long-term technical direction of the runtime across all supported platforms, making sound architectural decisions.
• The successful candidate is a hands-on systems engineer at heart. They have worked deep in the stack—hypervisors, container runtimes, OS internals, kernel development—and use that experience to guide their team to sound architectural decisions and a high engineering bar
• They are skilled at growing and retaining senior individual contributors, thrive in a remote-first environment, and bring the same curiosity and craft to engineering leadership that they once brought to the code itself
• They stay close to customers—not because they're told to, but because they know that the gap between elegant internals and something people actually trust is where the real work happens
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• 5+ years of hands-on systems programming experience (hypervisors, container runtimes, OS internals, kernel development, or similar low-level infrastructure)
• 5+ years experience managing high-performing engineering teams
• Experience with container runtimes (OCI, containerd, runc) or equivalent low-level infrastructure
• Cross-platform systems experience across two or more of: Windows, macOS, Linux
• Comfortable with a high degree of autonomy and the ability to work remotely across time zones
• Deep understanding of virtualization concepts: VMMs, hypervisors, and hardware-assisted virtualization
• 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering