Senior Software Engineer II, Network Products

DigitalOcean is a cloud and AI technology company focused on simplifying scalable cloud computing for developers and builders. The Senior Software Engineer II will join the Network Products team to design and build control-plane and data-plane software, develop APIs, improve reliability and performance, and support network products end-to-end. The role also involves cross-team collaboration, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring other engineers.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• You have used gRPC to build robust distributed and high-demand systems
• Experience with Firewall, DNS and Network Monitoring systems development
• Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka