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[Remote] Senior DNS Engineer

🌍 Remote Β· Australia πŸ’Ό Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DigitalOcean is hiring a senior engineer for its DNS Products team. The role focuses on developing control plane software and APIs, improving customer experience, and helping own product offerings end-to-end. The engineer will build and support scalable, reliable network services and tools.

Responsibilities

  • Work as a member of the team on the implementation, testing and optimization of new services and tools that run at scale and solve performance and monitoring problems
  • Work with other teams within Networking 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
  • Help establish best practices for development and architecture and ways to achieve them
  • Use technologies and tools such as: Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Chef, Git, Jira, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep, Docker, DNS, and Kubernetes

Skills

  • Experience designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and API
  • Experience with leading work across multiple teams to build API contracts
  • Experience deploying and operating Linux (Ubuntu) based virtual and bare metal hosts
  • Experience with Go programming language and unit tests
  • Some experience designing and developing high performance systems
  • Some domain knowledge of DNS and Networking stack or a strong willingness to learn
  • Experience with cloud development, containerization and virtualization
  • Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)
  • B.S/M.S in Computer Science or relevant and equivalent experience
  • Bonus: You have used gRPC to build robust distributed and high-demand systems
  • Bonus: Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka

Benefits

  • Resources from the organizational development team to support continued growth and development
  • Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Local Employee Meetups
  • Flexible time off policy
  • You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance.
  • Equity compensation, including equity grants upon hire, for eligible employees
  • Option to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program for eligible employees

Company Overview

  • DigitalOcean provides a cloud platform to deploy, manage, and scale applications of any size. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.digitalocean.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • DigitalOcean has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 32 in 2026, 30 in 2025, 8 in 2024, 9 in 2023, 22 in 2022, 11 in 2021, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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