[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer I @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 Network 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.

What You’ll Do:

• 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 with Go programming language and unit tests.
• Some experience designing and developing high performance systems.
• Some domain knowledge of Networking stack or a strong willingness to learn.
• Experience designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and API.
• 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).
• 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: 2026-8142.
• #LI-Remote.

Benefits

• We innovate with purpose.
• We prioritize career development.
• We care about your well-being.
• We reward our employees.

Company Description

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.