Docker is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join its AI engineering team in London. You will be instrumental in shaping how developers leverage containers for AI agents at massive scale, focusing on our open-source cagent project to enable the building, deployment, and scaling of intelligent agents.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement systems that leverage Docker containers as the ideal runtime for AI agents, ensuring isolation, scalability, and portability.
- Maintain and evolve the open-source cagent project, adding new capabilities for containerized agent deployment and orchestration.
- Build robust infrastructure for packaging, deploying, and managing agents in containers.
- Enhance agent capabilities with Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems to provide contextual knowledge and domain expertise.
- Design robust evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance, reliability, and containerized deployment effectiveness.
- Iterate quickly on new agent capabilities and deployment patterns, moving from concept to production efficiently.
- Engage with the cagent community, review contributions, and help grow the ecosystem.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers across Docker's AI teams to integrate containerized agent capabilities into Docker's developer experience.
What We're Looking For
- Strong proficiency in Go (this is absolutely required).
- Practical experience with large language models and agent development.
- Proven ability to design scalable, distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of Docker, containerization best practices, and container orchestration.
- Experience building Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems.
- Demonstrated ability to prototype quickly and iterate based on feedback.
Nice to Have
- Experience with CrewAI, AGNO, ADK, LangChain/LangGraph or similar AI orchestration frameworks.
- Experience with Python for AI prototyping and tooling.
- Experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms.
- Open source contributions and community engagement.
- Experience with agent evaluation, reliability, and observability techniques.
Technical Stack
- Go
- Docker
- Python
- Kubernetes
- LLMs
- RAG systems
- AI orchestration frameworks
Team & Environment
You will be part of Docker's AI engineering team, collaborating closely with sister teams working on Ask Gordon and Docker's broader AI platform.
Benefits & Compensation
- Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life.
- Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break.
- Home office setup.
- 16 weeks of paid Parental leave.
- Technology stipend equivalent to $100 net/month.
- PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy.
- Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes.
- Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company.
- Docker Swag.
- Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country.
Work Mode
This role is part of Docker's global, remote-first team and is based in London. Our culture spans the globe, united by a passion for innovation and great developer experiences.
Docker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
