Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Manager, Engineering role sits at an intersection that has become increasingly central in SaaS: developer platforms enabling AI-assisted workflows while maintaining strong isolation and trust boundaries. The focus on “coding agent sandboxes” signals work on foundational infrastructure that supports autonomous execution—an area where SaaS products must balance usability, security, and reliability at scale, especially when the audience is developers.
From a SaaS career perspective, the remit offers durable leadership experience in operating a product-critical engineering function: aligning delivery with product goals, running distributed execution across time zones, and setting a quality bar for systems that ship continuously. Managing senior ICs while owning operational excellence builds transferable capability for platform, infrastructure, and developer-experience organizations—functions that underpin retention and expansion in subscription businesses.
The role is best suited to an engineering leader who stays close to technical decision-making, values predictable delivery, and can translate ambiguous platform work into clear milestones. It will fit someone comfortable coordinating across product and engineering, and who prefers long-horizon ownership over a single feature cycle, particularly in developer-facing SaaS environments.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Employment Type
Full time
Compensation
- US Salary RangeUS Salary Range $231.6K – $318.5K • Offers Equity
The salary range is a guideline and actual starting compensation will be determined by location, level, skills, and experience.
At Docker, we make app development easier so developers can focus on what matters. Our remote-first team spans the globe, united by a passion for innovation and great developer experiences. With over 20 million monthly users and 20 billion image pulls, Docker is the #1 tool for building, sharing, and running apps—trusted by startups and Fortune 100s alike. We’re growing fast and just getting started. Come join us for a whale of a ride!
The Desktop & Core DX group is responsible for Docker Desktop along with the components that developers touch daily: Compose, CLI, Engine, Testcontainers, VS Code Extension, and more! In this role, you would manage the team responsible for our new coding agent sandbox functionality that enables coding agents to run autonomously in a safe manner. This entails leading the teams on designing, developing, and maintaining the feature. You will be accountable for the operational excellence and delivery of the team.
The successful candidate has a deep technical background that they leverage to drive the team to operational excellence and good technical decisions. They are skilled at growing and managing senior individual contributors. They have a track record of building successful teams. They love developer tooling, have an eye for detail, are curious, and work well with customers, users, and partners.
Responsibilities
Management of engineers distributed across Europe and the US.
Align the team with business and product goals by working closely with product management.
Ensure predictable delivery and operational excellence of the components the teams ship.
Facilitate communication across teams and status reporting for critical projects.
Hire and retain talent.
Hold a high bar for engineering excellence.
Qualifications
5+ years experience managing a high performing team.
5+ years experience as a software developer.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Comfortable with a high degree of autonomy (self-motivated, organized) and the ability to work remotely across time zones.
What to Expect
First 30 Days
Understand the group and team missions.
Meet the team along with peers across the group and the company.
Start line managing reports and building a rapport.
High-level understanding of the existing Docker functionality.
Participate in status reporting.
Understanding of the Docker personas and how they apply to the team.
First 90 Days
Work with the team to align on goals and measures of success.
Start career discussions with reports.
Work with the teams to improve their processes.
Attend a customer call.
Oversee the delivery of a change or feature.
Started hiring for the team (if needed).
One Year Outlook (First Year)
Been involved in driving the long term direction of the team.
Have had a sustained, positive impact on reports.
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Perks
Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
Designated quarterly Whaleness Days
Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
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
Quarterly, company-wide hackathons
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
Docker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.
Due to the remote nature of this role, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
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Compensation Range: $231.6K - $318.5K
