Senior Go Engineer: Distributed Cloud & Microservices (Hybrid)

Emploive

Seattle, Northern (WA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 139,000 - 174,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Job summary

DigitalOcean seeks a Senior Software Engineer I to join a team building high-throughput microservices and core infrastructure. You will tackle deep systems challenges and mentor engineers across the stack.

Reporting to Mavis Franco, you will lead design and implementation of distributed control plane services, optimize performance, and help shape resilient cloud compute platforms in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

  • Experience with Go, microservices, and distributed control plane systems with low latency.
  • Experience containerizing and managing cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes/Firecracker).
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and Linux networking.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement high-performance distributed control plane services with Go.
  • Lead execution of complex projects from design to release on schedule.
  • Develop scalable microservice interfaces using gRPC and REST.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews and guidance.
  • Resolve distributed systems edge cases to maximize uptime and resilience.
  • Improve build pipelines and service boundaries for better operations.
  • Participate in on-call support and production incident response.

Skills

Go
Microservices architecture
Distributed control plane
Low-latency infrastructure APIs
Kubernetes
Firecracker

Tools

Kubernetes
Firecracker

Job description

DigitalOcean seeks a Senior Software Engineer I to join a team building high-throughput microservices and core infrastructure. You will tackle deep systems challenges and mentor engineers across the stack.

Reporting to Mavis Franco, you will lead design and implementation of distributed control plane services, optimize performance, and help shape resilient cloud compute platforms in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

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