About the role
Platform Engineer (Edge / Docker / IIoT)
> Portainer.io · India (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-05
Workplace: remote
Department: Engineering
Description
We're looking for a Edge Platform Engineer to help operate and modernize one of the world's largest industrial edge computing deployments.
You'll work with a fleet of more than 100,000 connected edge devices running Docker-based applications in challenging real-world environments where connectivity is intermittent, bandwidth is constrained, and devices may remain offline for extended periods.
This role combines Docker platform engineering, edge computing, networking, deployment automation, troubleshooting, and customer collaboration. You'll work directly with enterprise customers and our engineering team to solve complex operational problems at scale.
If you've worked with industrial IoT, edge gateways, manufacturing systems, mining, energy, transportation, or other distributed edge environments, we'd love to hear from you.
Requirements
What We're Looking For
Required
- Strong commercial experience with Docker and Docker Compose.
- Experience supporting Linux systems in production.
- Experience deploying applications to remote or distributed edge environments.
- Experience operating systems across unreliable, high-latency, or bandwidth-constrained networks.
- Strong understanding of container networking.
- Experience troubleshooting production systems remotely.
- Familiarity with container image optimization and multi-stage Docker builds.
- Strong Linux troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent customer communication skills.
