Senior Go Engineer: Distributed Control Plane (Remote)

digitalocean98; United States; Remote; USD 139,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Flexible time off

Training reimbursement

Well-being benefits

Job summary

DigitalOcean seeks a Go-focused engineer to lead high-throughput distributed control plane services for cloud compute infrastructure. You will code, design, and mentor across teams in a fully remote setting.

You will own system design through release, optimize latency and resilience, and collaborate with security, operations, and product to deliver reliable platforms.

Strong knowledge of microservices, networking, and Linux performance is required, with a focus on uptime and scale.

Qualifications

• Experience building services in Go and designing microservice architectures.
• Background with distributed control planes or low-latency infrastructure APIs.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and network performance in Linux.
• Experience leading complex projects, breaking work into deliverables, and mentoring engineers.
• Familiarity with containerization, virtualization, or cloud-native infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-throughput, low-latency services for reliable compute orchestration.
• Lead technical workstreams from system design through release, keeping delivery aligned with project goals and timelines.
• Develop service interfaces using gRPC and REST, with clear contracts across distributed components.
• Guide less experienced engineers through technical coaching and code reviews.
• Investigate distributed systems edge cases and operational bottlenecks; improve resilience and uptime.
• Support production systems through monitoring and on-call response, and improve architecture, build pipelines, and operating workflows.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Linux

Microservices

REST/gRPC

Tools

gRPC

REST

Kubernetes

Job description

DigitalOcean seeks a Go-focused engineer to lead high-throughput distributed control plane services for cloud compute infrastructure. You will code, design, and mentor across teams in a fully remote setting.

You will own system design through release, optimize latency and resilience, and collaborate with security, operations, and product to deliver reliable platforms.

Strong knowledge of microservices, networking, and Linux performance is required, with a focus on uptime and scale.