Docker, Inc

Senior Solutions Architect – East

Docker, Inc

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Salary

💰 $150,400 - $188,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Work with Docker’s most important customers and cross functional Docker teams to accelerate the customer’s container and AI journeys, focusing on developer workflows
  • Engage with customer teams and cross functional Docker teams to gather customer’s technical/business goals and challenges related to their container and AI journey.
  • Create and manage engagement plans that span existing products and new Docker offerings to achieve critical business goals.
  • Oversee “design partner” rapid prototyping engagements with Docker engineering and customer teams to validate customer-product fit for new use cases
  • Work with Docker teams to create/manage/deliver custom demos and content aligned to customer use cases.
  • Deliver high-impact enablement and best practices content to customer audiences from developer to C level.
  • Ability to travel up to 50% domestically and internationally as a senior representative of Docker to prospective clients, customers, and technical alliance partners.
  • Be a thought leader for a particular area of responsibility both internal and external to Docker, working with fellow Dockhands to create/manage/deliver content
  • Gather field feedback from customer teams and Docker pre and post sales teams
  • Coordinate with Field CTO and other Solutions Architects to prioritize/contextualize/correlate field requests into a cohesive set of prioritized requests to the product/engineering teams.
  • Work directly with Docker product/engineering teams on workflows and feature alignment to customer use cases prioritized by revenue impact.
  • Be customer zero for new functionality produced by Docker product/engineering teams
  • Give input on internal technical enablement and customer enablement needs, and review enablement content
  • Assist the sales enablement team with internal technical enablement for new products and services.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solution Architect in complex enterprise environments.
  • Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience in managing customer relationships at the technical and business level.
  • Experience presenting solutions and demonstrations to small and large audiences, virtually and in person.
  • Experience interfacing with internal product/software teams, including technical support, product, and engineering, to enhance documentation, enablement, and product features to improve customer experience and enablement.
  • Experience developing application code, and a clear understanding of the challenges developers experience on a daily basis.
  • Ability to solve technical problems and translate customer experience to actionable feedback for engineering.
  • Experience developing collateral to assist customers with best-practice adoption.
  • Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containers, DevOps, and modern application architectures.
  • Experience with Docker, container ecosystems, or adjacent technologies strongly preferred.
  • Development, Agentic AI dev, Software Development Lifecycle and/or Software Supply Chain Security experience strongly preferred.
  • Must be fluent in English
  • Willingness to travel up to 50% domestically and internationally as a senior representative of Docker to prospective clients, customers, and technical alliance partners.
Benefits
  • Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
  • Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
  • 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
  • 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
  • Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris
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Hard Skills & Tools
Sales EngineerSolutions EngineerSolution Architectapplication code developmentcloud platformscontainersDevOpsSoftware Development LifecycleAgentic AI developmentSoftware Supply Chain Security
Soft Skills
communicationinfluencestakeholder managementcustomer relationship managementproblem solvingtechnical presentationfeedback translationcontent developmentenablementthought leadership