Software Engineer - Multiple Positions

We are looking for Software Engineers at Intermediate, Senior, or - for the right candidate - at Staff level.

These are remote positions and you can be based from anywhere in NZ.

Who are we?

At Portainer, we simplify enterprise-grade container management. From multi-cluster agility to remote-site efficiency, Portainer gives IT and OT teams the visibility, control, and ROI they need – without complexity or vendor lock-in.

At the core of our work is a commitment to making the complex simple. Whether customers are running Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or edge compute, Portainer provides tools that are elegant, reliable, and designed to scale.

Our open-source product has achieved widespread adoption, with hundreds of thousands of active users and hundreds of millions of downloads. Supported by a strong group of international investors, we now serve organisations ranging from small businesses to large enterprises across the globe.

What does a Software Engineer do?

We are looking for Software Engineers to play a key role in delivering Portainer reliably at scale. This role will help shape the next generation of our product while strengthening engineering practices across the organisation.

You will work in an engineering team to help build the next versions of Portainer, while also raising the bar for our engineering practices and supporting those around you.

This is primarily an individual contributor role , with a strong expectation that you will proactively pick up and complete all tasks assigned to you. You will become an expert in a single aspect or area of the product , and people will look to you for assistance whenever it needs changing. You will contribute significant code and will start to coach others, especially on areas you are more familiar with.

Portainer is quite different from your average SaaS business. It is deployed directly into customer environments (often air-gapped) where it manages thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, of devices reliably at scale. Our challenge is to keep up with a rapidly evolving tool ecosystem, simplify the experience for our customers, and ensure Portainer remains a mission-critical, reliable part of their infrastructure.

Portainer is open source, and you can view the code for our Community Edition at We use Go for our backend and JavaScript / React for the frontend.

There are four key aspects to this role :

• Craft : You are a capable engineer across a main skillset and can readily pick up others as needed. You will also become an expert in a single aspect or area of the product, and people will look to you for assistance.
• Collaboration : You contribute effectively and proactively to team meetings and brainstorming, both synchronously and asynchronously. At Senior and above you will start to coach others and communicate with other parts of the business as required.
• Impact : Your impact is measured by how effectively you complete your assigned work and proactively take on new tasks. You are a consistent, high-leverage contributor to your team's goals, helping to ensure timely and effective delivery of projects.
• Values : You'll be expected to model Portainer's values, with a focus on "Muck In" by being happy to help out no matter what, and contributing to a positive, inclusive team culture.

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For us to consider a match, if you’re excited by the challenge of building elegant solutions to complex problems, we encourage you to apply - we’d love to hear from you.

Portainer is growing rapidly and is already established in the enterprise space, but we’re still small enough that every engineer has a visible impact. Joining as a Staff Engineer gives you :

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