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Senior Software Engineer II, Network Products

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Hybrid
Seattle, WA, USA
167K-209K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
Seattle, WA, USA
167K-209K Annually
Senior level
Design, implement, test, and optimize scalable control-plane and data-plane services for cloud networking products. Build APIs, distributed systems, monitoring tools, and performance improvements while supporting existing products. Establish engineering best practices, improve reliability and delivery processes, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong Go development, networking expertise, cloud and containerization experience, and familiarity with technologies including eBPF, XDP, gRPC, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
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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.

What You’ll Do:
  • 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
What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:
  • 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.
Compensation Range: 
  •  $167,200 - $209,000

*This is a hybrid role

JR: 2026-8145

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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
  • We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
  • We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
  • We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
  • We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.

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