[Hiring] Senior DNS Engineer @DigitalOcean

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer 1 at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role will be on the DNS Products team, reporting to the Engineering Manager, where you will write control 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.

• Work as a member of the team on the implementation, testing and optimization of new services and tools that run at scale and solve performance and monitoring problems.
• Work with other teams within Networking 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.
• Help establish best practices for development and architecture and ways to achieve them.
• Use technologies and tools such as: Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Chef, Git, Jira, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep, Docker, DNS, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and API.
• Experience with leading work across multiple teams to build API contracts.
• Experience deploying and operating Linux (Ubuntu) based virtual and bare metal hosts.
• Experience with Go programming language and unit tests.
• Some experience designing and developing high performance systems.
• Some domain knowledge of DNS and Networking stack or a strong willingness to learn.
• Experience with cloud development, containerization and virtualization.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD).
• Bonus: You have used gRPC to build robust distributed and high-demand systems.
• Bonus: Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka.
• B.S/M.S in Computer Science or relevant and equivalent experience.

Requirements

• Compensation Range: $139,200 - $174,000.
• This is a remote role.
• JR: 2026-8222.
• #LI-Remote.

Benefits

• We innovate with purpose.
• You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory.
• We prioritize career development.
• We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses.
• We care about your well-being.
• We will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you.
• We reward our employees.
• You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary.
• We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees.