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[Remote] Senior Software Engineer II, Network Products

๐ŸŒ Remote ยท United States ๐Ÿ’ผ Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DigitalOcean is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for its Network Products team. The role focuses on building and improving control plane and data plane software, developing APIs, and supporting reliable, high-performance networking products.

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
  • Help to grow and mentor other engineers within Networking

Skills

  • 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
  • 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: Experience with Firewall, DNS and Network Monitoring systems development
  • Bonus: Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka

Benefits

  • 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 for eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire
  • Option to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Remote role

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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