Description:

Docker is a remote-first company that simplifies the lives of developers creating impactful applications.
The Billing team focuses on providing users with a seamless purchasing experience and straightforward plan management across Docker’s products.
The Senior Backend Engineer will address challenges such as rolling out billing for new products, supporting large enterprises with complex billing structures, streamlining operations, and managing consumption-based billing.
The role involves designing, building, and maintaining backend services within Docker's ecosystem.
Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems.
The engineer will improve development practices to maintain high quality and fast delivery.
The position requires a passion for enhancing developers' experiences and a commitment to Docker's mission.
Responsibilities include building and improving a billing system, adding support for consumption-based billing, leading new feature development, writing project proposals, mentoring team members, deploying code, and responding to internal billing support requests.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 5+ years of experience in building SaaS applications.
A minimum of 3 years of experience with a C-based backend language, preferably Golang, is required.
Experience in senior or leadership roles is necessary, with the ability to take initiative and support junior engineers.
A strong interest or experience in user checkout experiences, payment processing, invoicing, and recurring subscriptions is essential.
Candidates should have experience working with stakeholders across departments.
Familiarity with subscriptions and recurring payments, particularly with platforms like Stripe, is preferred.
Experience with consumption-based billing and alerting is a nice-to-have.
Strong troubleshooting and test automation skills are required.
Proficiency in SQL (Postgres preferred), cloud platforms (AWS preferred), IaC (Terraform preferred), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), and knowledge of security and compliance best practices (PCI, SOC2, SOX) is necessary.
Strong verbal and written English skills are required, along with a record of documenting SOPs and project proposals.
Candidates must be able to work in a fully remote environment across international time zones.