Senior Software Engineer-Network
DigitalOcean · Posted Sep 23
Cloud infrastructure, virtual machines, managed database, and AI inference services
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About the role
DigitalOcean's Core Compute organization provides reliable, high-performance virtual machine infrastructure (Droplets), scalable Autoscale Pools, and flexible resource allocation systems that allow millions of developers to run critical applications confidently at scale. The Compute Platform Services team builds the scalable backend infrastructure, control planes, and hypervisor-orchestration engines that provision, lifecycle-manage, and scale compute workloads safely and reliably. This role involves designing high-throughput backend systems that orchestrate complex VM placement and execution workflows, interface with hypervisor control layers, and process real-time resource-telemetry signals.
What you will do
- Designing, building, and maintaining robust backend services and highly concurrent asynchronous workflows for virtual machine provisioning, placement, and lifecycle management, primarily in Python and Go.
- Integrating backend control planes with hypervisor and host virtualization layers (e.g., KVM, QEMU) to safely manage compute resources, block storage attachments, and virtual networking context.
- Building and operating scalable APIs (gRPC, REST) to serve as the connective tissue across compute orchestration engines, host metadata services, and internal infrastructure platforms.
- Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to ensure host infrastructure reliably supports high-density hyperthreading, autoscale policies, and customer SLA guarantees.
- Driving engineering best practices, including code reviews, comprehensive testing, and technical design documentation.
- Monitoring core system performance, investigating control-plane bottlenecks, and ensuring high reliability of compute orchestration systems.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building highly concurrent, fault-tolerant distributed systems.Deep proficiency in Python and Go (or strong experience in C++/Java with a willingness to master Python and Go quickly).
- Hands-on experience with durable workflow orchestration engines for managing distributed state, hardware scheduling, and long-running asynchronous tasks.
- Strong working knowledge of virtualization, hypervisors, containerization, or low-level system isolation technologies (e.g., KVM, QEMU, libvirt, Docker, or microVMs).
- Experience building resilient APIs and handling high-throughput telemetry, control-plane signals, or message streams.
- A strong sense of ownership, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a globally distributed team.
- Cloud Infrastructure Awareness: While you do not need to be a kernel developer, you possess a strong foundational understanding of host resource scheduling, storage/network virtualization trade-offs, and the unique architectural challenges of building multi-tenant infrastructure.
Benefits and support
- 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 ...
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is an American cloud infrastructure provider and AI-native cloud platform built for developers, startups, and small-to-medium-sized businesses. The company provides simple, scalable virtual machines, managed databases, Kubernetes, and specialized inference engines designed to run modern application and agentic AI workloads.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 1001-5000 employees
- Founded
- 2011-06-24
- Location
- Broomfield, Colorado, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $174M raised
- 2013-07-01Seed$3.2M
- 2014-03-01Series A$37.2M
- 2014-12-01Debt Financing$50M
- 2015-07-01Series B$83M
- 2016-04-01Debt Financing$130M
- 2020-05-01Venture Round$50M
- 2021-03-24IPO$775.5M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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