Senior Go Engineer: Distributed Control Plane & Mentorship

Linuxcareers; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean in Seattle seeks a Senior Software Engineer II for the Compute team to build and optimize distributed control plane microservices for cloud infrastructure. You will design scalable Go-based services, craft high-throughput gRPC interfaces, and mentor teammates while elevating engineering standards across the Compute ecosystem.

This IC4 role emphasizes low-level systems work, Linux kernel interactions with KVM/Firecracker, and ensuring world-class availability across global data

Qualifications

• Experience with Go and high-throughput microservices.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts.
• Experience mentoring engineers and guiding technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable distributed control plane microservices in Go.
• Design robust gRPC interfaces and service contracts for high throughput communication.
• Mentor team members through architectural reviews and coding standards.
• Establish observability and automated recovery frameworks for minimal downtime.

Skills

Go

gRPC

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Tools

KVM

Firecracker

eBPF

cgroups

Linux kernel

Job description

DigitalOcean in Seattle seeks a Senior Software Engineer II for the Compute team to build and optimize distributed control plane microservices for cloud infrastructure. You will design scalable Go-based services, craft high-throughput gRPC interfaces, and mentor teammates while elevating engineering standards across the Compute ecosystem.

This IC4 role emphasizes low-level systems work, Linux kernel interactions with KVM/Firecracker, and ensuring world-class availability across global data