Manager, Engineering, Secure Build and SCS Services (East Coast Preferred)
Core
Lead two engineering teams (Secure Build and SCS Services) responsible for Docker's container build infrastructure, CI capabilities, and supply-chain security services.
Role type
Engineering Manager (Portfolio Lead)
Builds
Docker Build Cloud, Docker Hub Automated Builds, Docker Scout, Docker Hardened Images
Domain
Developer tooling, containerization, software supply-chain security, cloud infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering management, backend systems, distributed systems, CI/build internals, container technology, software supply-chain security, production operations, cross-functional leadership
Preferred skills
Go, Clojure, Kafka, Spanner
Technologies
Go, Clojure, Kafka, Spanner, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud infrastructure
Responsibilities
Lead Secure Build and SCS Services, owning delivery, team health, growth, performance and operational excellence across both; Turn two changing roadmaps into a coherent portfolio plan with explicit priorities, capacity and trade-offs; Partner with Product to shape strategy and roadmaps for secure build, Docker Scout, Docker Hardened Images and the services that connect them; Stay close to the technical work through design and code review, incident response and selective hands-on contribution where it adds leverage; Ensure each team's technical direction supports product, security, reliability and customer priorities, setting it collaboratively with Staff and senior engineers while leaving clear decision ownership with them; Own the interfaces between the teams, including trust boundaries, contracts, data quality, versioning, operational ownership and customer-facing failure modes; Balance new product work with inherited systems and on-call, and invest in reliability improvements driven by recurring operational pain; Own engineer growth and performance, handle difficult conversations directly, hire and retain strong people and build succession depth within both teams; Align Product, Design, Security, DHI Content, Registry, Hub, sales, support, commercial and legal partners while shielding the teams from churn; Lead disciplined use of AI-assisted engineering and communicate decisions, risks and progress clearly across UK and US working hours.