Senior Go Engineer: Distributed Cloud & Microservices (Hybrid)

Emploive; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Bonus potential

Learning & development stipend

Hybrid work model

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.