Senior DNS Engineer – Remote Cloud Innovation

DigitalOcean; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 139,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer 1 to join the DNS Products team. You will write control plane software, develop APIs, troubleshoot and improve customer experience, and help own product offerings end-to-end.

You’ll work on scalable services, collaborate across teams, and contribute to high-performance systems, with Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native tooling shaping the role.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and API.
• Experience leading work across multiple teams to build API contracts.
• Experience deploying and operating Linux (Ubuntu) based 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test and optimize services and tools that run at scale and solve performance and monitoring problems.
• Collaborate with Networking teams to build the next generation of products for our developers community.
• Support existing products and contribute creative solutions to pain points.
• Help improve tooling and processes to ship robust and mission-critical parts of the ecosystem.
• Help establish best practices for development and architecture and ways to achieve them.

Skills

Go programming

API design

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Team collaboration

Linux system administration

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

gRPC

Prometheus

Grafana

Jira

Consul

SQL

Lightstep

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer 1 to join the DNS Products team. You will write control plane software, develop APIs, troubleshoot and improve customer experience, and help own product offerings end-to-end.

You’ll work on scalable services, collaborate across teams, and contribute to high-performance systems, with Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native tooling shaping the role.