Senior Software Engineer II, Network Products

About the role

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world. As a Senior Software Engineer 2 at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role will be on the Network Products team, reporting to the Engineering Manager, where you will write control plane and data plane software: developing APIs, troubleshooting and improving the customer experience, and helping the team to own some of the product offerings end-to-end. Our team is passionate about quality, performance, and the reliability of the Network Products product suite and is excited about the impact our work has on the company and customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, test and optimization of new services and tools that run at scale and solve performance and monitoring problems.
• Work with other teams within Networking and across the company to build the next generation of products and services for our developers community.
• Support existing products and contribute creative solutions to the pain points.
• Help improve our toolings and process to ship robust and mission-critical parts of the ecosystem.
• Establish best practices for development and architecture.
• Use technologies and tools such as: Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Chef, Git, Jira, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep, Docker, DNS, eBPF, XDP, and Kubernetes.
• Help to grow and mentor other engineers within Networking.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a software architect and lead developer in building scalable, real-time, and distributed systems.
• Significant experience with Go programming language and unit tests.
• Domain knowledge of Networking stack and an eagerness to learn more.
• Experience with leading work across multiple teams to build API contracts.
• Experience with cloud development, containerization and virtualization.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD).
• Some experience with data plane programming like eBPF and XDP.
• Record of creating sweeping improvements in stability, performance and scalability across major business-critical systems.
• Record of automating the steps necessary to deliver high-quality, well-tested, and production-ready software from initial development to ongoing, scalable, production operation.
• Bonus: You have used gRPC to build robust distributed and high-demand systems.
• Bonus: Experience with Firewall, DNS and Network Monitoring systems development.
• Bonus: Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka.
• B.S/M.S in Computer Science or relevant and equivalent experience.

Pay

Compensation Range $167,200 - $209,000

Benefits

• Innovate with purpose at a cutting‑edge technology company with an upward trajectory, focused on simplifying cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating world‑changing software.
• Be a “Shark” who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, acting like an owner with a bias for action and a strong sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
• Career development: work with some of the smartest people in the industry, access to resources for continued growth, reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning’s 10,000+ courses.
• Well‑being: competitive benefits including Employee Assistance Program, Local Employee Meetups, flexible time off policy, and other location‑based perks.
• Rewards: salary based on market data, experience, and skills; eligibility for performance‑based bonus; equity compensation including equity grants upon hire and option to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Schedule

Remote