Senior Software Engineer, Sandboxes (London or East Coast Preferred) at Docker

Role overview

The Senior Software Engineer, Sandboxes (London or East Coast Preferred) opening at Docker is centered on Design, develop, and lead improvements to the sandboxes product across agent integration, tool permissions, and developer-facing workflows. The employer also lists Investigate and resolve correctness, performance, and stability issues in the agent integration layer across macOS, Windows, and Linux. and Drive the reliability and performance of sandbox creation, session management, and teardown for AI agent workloads. These responsibilities define the practical scope more clearly than the job title: applicants should be ready to explain what they have built, supported or delivered that relates directly to this work. The listing summary says: Senior Software Engineer, Sandboxes (London or East Coast Preferred) opportunity with Docker. See the official posting for responsibilities and application details. The named technologies include Docker, Linux.

The posting identifies 8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale. and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience as relevant qualifications. Candidates should connect these requirements to evidence from their own work, including their individual contribution, technical decisions and outcomes. The listing describes the work arrangement as remote and gives the location as London, UK / United States / United Kingdom. Confirm country eligibility, travel, employment terms and any details absent from this summary directly with Docker before applying. This overview is based on the employer-provided posting; it does not infer team structure or expectations that the source does not state.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and lead improvements to the sandboxes product across agent integration, tool permissions, and developer-facing workflows.
• Investigate and resolve correctness, performance, and stability issues in the agent integration layer across macOS, Windows, and Linux.
• Drive the reliability and performance of sandbox creation, session management, and teardown for AI agent workloads.
• Collaborate with peers, Product, and adjacent teams to evolve the architecture as requirements grow.
• Mentor engineers on the team and set the bar in design reviews and code reviews.
• Engage with the open source and agentic development community around sandboxing, MCP, and related ecosystems.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to critical stability issues affecting users.
• Document your work clearly and share knowledge with the rest of the team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience building developer tools, desktop applications, or runtime infrastructure used directly by developers.
• Familiarity with the agentic software development ecosystem: how coding agents work and how tools like Claude Code, Codex, or similar agents interact with their environment.
• Ability to reason about isolation and security boundaries: what a sandbox should and shouldn't expose, and how to make safe defaults obvious to users.
• Experience driving architecture and technical strategy across multiple engineers or teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy in a remote-first environment.
• Build an understanding of our codebase.
• Meet the people on your team and those adjacent to it.
• Build an understanding of the products we are shipping and our near-term technical priorities.
• Deliver small fixes or improvements.
• Lead the design and development of a significant improvement or feature of the local sandboxes stack.
• Engage with our open source project and the relevant upstream communities.
• Shape the team's technical direction, and drive architecture discussions.
• Deliver measurable improvements to the correctness and performance of sandboxes.

Technology in this role

• Docker: The Senior Software Engineer, Sandboxes (London or East Coast Preferred) opening at Docker is centered on Design, develop, and lead improvements to the sandboxes product across agent integration, tool permissions, and developer-facing .
• Linux: The employer also lists Investigate and resolve correctness, performance, and stability issues in the agent integration layer across macOS, Windows, and .
• Go: • Become a recognized technical owner of key parts of the codebase and a go-to technical leader for the local .
• CAN: This is the core of Docker's sbx product: developers can give an agent the autonomy it needs to get real work done without it ever touching the host, and tear the whole environment down when it's .

Benefits

• Remote-first by design – Work from your home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.
• Flexibility that fits your life – We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering great work.
• Time to recharge – Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break.
• Home office support – Set up your workspace for comfort and success.
• Technology stipend – Equivalent to US$100 net per month to help support your work.
• Learning & development – Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning.
• Parental leave – 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
• Equity for all full-time employees – Share in Docker's long-term success as we continue to grow.
• Comprehensive benefits – Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country.
• Docker swag – Because representing the whale never gets old.
• Docker is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe diverse teams build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our global community.

About Docker

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout.

We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.

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The Docker Sandboxes team is building the runtime that lets AI coding agents run safely on a developer's machine: disposable, isolated microVM sandboxes that each get their own Docker daemon, filesystem, and network.

This is the core of Docker's sbx product: developers can give an agent the autonomy it needs to get real work done without it ever touching the host, and tear the whole environment down when it's finished.

The successful candidate is a technical, product-minded engineer with deep experience building secure, isolated runtime environments (sandboxes, containers, or VMs) and a track record of shipping and owning that kind of infrastructure in production at scale. They think naturally about isolation and security boundaries, understand the tradeoffs involved in running untrusted or semi-trusted workloads safely, and can reason confidently about a system that spans multiple surface areas.

They can drive clarity and consensus on hard, ambiguous problems that cross team and component boundaries, raise the bar for engineering quality wherever they work, thrive in a remote-first environment, communicate clearly across time zones, work with our users, while bringing curiosity and craftsmanship to hard problems.

Please note: this role is currently prioritizing candidates currently located in the Eastern time zone (US or Canada), or in the EU.

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