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Docker is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to serve as the technical visionary and architect for our Bridge organizationâthe foundational platform that powers accounts, billing, data, developer tools and enterprise governance across all Docker products. This is one of the most impactful individual contributor roles at Docker, responsible for defining and driving the technical strategy that enables Docker's transformation from a collection of individual products into a unified enterprise platform capable of supporting our next phase of growth.
As Senior Principal Engineer, you will establish strategic technical plans that span multiple engineering organizations, make critical architectural decisions that affect Docker's entire product portfolio, and drive execution of cross-company programs that directly enable revenue generation. You'll work at the intersection of Accounts, Billing, Data, Platform Infrastructure, Developer Tools and Enterprise Governance, ensuring these foundational systems work together seamlessly to support Docker's business model evolution from seat-based to usage-based pricing, our expansion into AI and security products, and our growth from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of enterprise customers.
This role requires someone who combines deep technical expertise across multiple domains with the business acumen to translate Docker's commercial strategy into platform capabilities. You'll be recognized across Docker as the definitive expert on platform architecture, consulted by executives on strategic technical decisions, and responsible for ensuring that every product team can launch enterprise-ready features rapidly because the platform handles the complexity underneath.
Technical Vision & Strategic Planning
Define and own the multi-year technical vision for Docker's foundational platform, encompassing accounts, billing, data, enterprise governance, and infrastructure
Establish strategic plans and objectives for major platform initiatives, making architectural decisions that ensure effective achievement of Docker's business objectives
Contribute to and drive the strategic vision in collaboration with the VP of Engineering, translating organizational strategy into technical roadmaps that span multiple teams and years
Identify and prioritize platform investments that provide maximum leverageâcapabilities built once that enable rapid iteration across all Docker products
Develop architectural principles and standards that guide technical decisions across the Bridge organization and influence product engineering teams
Anticipate future business needs and ensure platform architecture provides the flexibility to support Docker's evolving commercial models
Cross-Company Technical Leadership
Lead large cross-company programs that require coordination across Desktop, Hub, AI, Security, Cloud, and Platform teams
Architect the unified platform interfaces ("Control Planes") that enable product teams to answer canonical questions like "Can this user access this feature?" or "How much has this organization consumed?" without understanding underlying complexity
Drive convergence of fragmented systems across Dockerâreplacing product-specific implementations with shared platform capabilities for authentication, authorization, billing, and observability
Establish technical contracts between platform and product teams that enable independent velocity while ensuring consistency and reliability
Lead architectural reviews for major initiatives across Docker, ensuring alignment with platform strategy and long-term maintainability
Proactively identify and solve problems that impact critical areas of the business before they become blockers
Billing & Monetization Platform Architecture
Architect the Billing Control Plane that enables Docker to launch new product SKUs in weeks instead of months
Design the Usage-Based Billing platform that supports sophisticated pricing models combining base fees, per-seat charges, consumption pricing, and volume discounts
Ensure billing architecture supports Docker's commercial flexibilityâenabling bundle pricing, enterprise contract structures, and rapid pricing experimentation
Define the metering infrastructure where products simply report usage events and the platform handles aggregation, rating, invoicing, and revenue recognition
Architect billing systems that scale to support Docker's growth while maintaining the accuracy and audibility that enterprise customers and finance require
Accounts & Identity Platform Architecture
Design the metadata-driven identity platform that serves as the single source of truth for authentication, authorization, and access control across all Docker products
Architect account infrastructure that supports Docker's enterprise requirementsâdomain-based account ownership, organization lifecycle management, and namespace separation
Define the Centralized Access Control Service that becomes the standard authorization point for all Docker products, replacing fragmented team-specific solutions
Ensure identity architecture supports both consumer simplicity and enterprise complexityâfrom individual developers to organizations with thousands of managed accounts
Design migration paths that transition millions of existing users seamlessly while introducing new capabilities progressively
Enterprise Governance Platform Architecture
Architect the Unified Internal Access Control Endpoint that abstracts entitlements, permissions, settings, policies, and feature flags into a single source of truth for all product teams
Design the Enterprise Command Center architecture that provides consolidated administrative experience across all Docker products
Define group management and RBAC architecture that supports global, group, and user-level policy scoping with IdP synchronization
Architect high-volume audit logging infrastructure and observability platform that meets enterprise compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001) and integrates with enterprise SIEM tools
Ensure governance architecture enables Docker to launch any new product "enterprise-ready" from day one with baseline governance controls
Data Platform Architecture
Define canonical data models that serve as the foundation for analytics, reporting, and machine learning across Docker
Architect real-time streaming infrastructure that enables immediate reactions to customer behaviorâusage spikes, security anomalies, expansion opportunities
Design self-service data capabilities that democratize access while maintaining governance and accuracy
Ensure data architecture supports both operational needs (real-time dashboards, alerts) and analytical needs (business intelligence, forecasting)
Drive convergence to eliminate conflicting metrics that undermine trust in business decisions
Infrastructure & Developer Experience Architecture
Define the infrastructure platform vision that removes infrastructure as a bottleneck to innovationâenabling teams to deploy experimental services in minutes, not weeks
Architect standardized deployment patterns that encode best practices for security, scaling, monitoring, and reliability
Design infrastructure that specifically supports AI and agent initiativesârapid deployment, programmatic environm
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