Staff Backend Engineer, Hub (East Coast)

Responsibilities

• Distributed Systems & Backend Engineering
• Architect, build, and operate high-scale distributed systems powering Docker Hub’s registry platform—spanning artifact storage, metadata services, indexing workflows, and performance-critical APIs.
• Lead the design and implementation of backend services with a strong emphasis on scalability, correctness, resilience, and performance.
• Drive major initiatives around multi-region replication, caching strategies, request-path optimization, and core registry reliability.
• Data Infrastructure & Storage
• Design, optimize, operate the data and storage layers - for both Relational and NoSql as well as object storage and related technologies.
• Develop schemas and data models to support high-throughput, large-volume workloads.
• Own systems end-to-end—from storage-layer behavior to API design, deployment workflows, and production monitoring.
• Operations, Observability & Scale
• Improve the performance and reliability of one of the world’s largest repositories of container images.

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