Software Engineer II (Network Automation)
DigitalOcean · Posted Oct 14
Cloud infrastructure, virtual machines, managed database, and AI inference services
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About the role
DigitalOcean's network engineering team, part of the infrastructure group, builds and maintains the network that carries all traffic from the Internet edge to the hypervisors, with a focus on massive scalability and stability for hundreds of thousands of customers. The team works with other infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure new products and features have scalable network architectures. This role designs, develops and maintains software tools and automation for the network infrastructure and the network automation and monitoring platform.
What you will do
- Designing, developing and maintaining software tools/automation for networking infra and systems to help us manage our networks across all of our sites at DO.
- Working with networking infrastructure focused engineers to develop/maintain our network automation and monitoring platform
- Helping to maintain good code quality by providing guidance during code reviews
- Leverage AI coding tools to rapidly prototype and roll out solutions
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- B.Tech./B.E./B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent degree
- Knowledge of basic networking concepts and either have previous experience or have a strong interest in learning and working on software and tools to automate data center networks.
- Knowledge of and demonstrated ability in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python
- Familiarity with Linux
- Familiarity with CI/CD, containers and/or virtualization, web servers, and databases
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack is preferred.
- Familiarity with automation frameworks (Salt preferred, Ansible)
- Good knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git, and accustomed to multi-branch development
Benefits and support
- 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
- Bonus in addition to base salary, determined based on company and individual performance
- Equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program
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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