Senior Go Engineer for Cloud Networking (Remote)

Emploive; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Bonus eligibility

Conference reimbursement

LinkedIn Learning access (professional

development)

Flexible time off

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer 1 to join the Network Products team. You will write control plane software, develop APIs, troubleshoot customer experiences, and help own products end-to-end in a fast-paced, high-quality environment.

The role emphasizes Go, containerization, and scalable cloud services, with opportunities to influence architecture and drive robust distributed systems.

Qualifications

• BSCS or equivalent; strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience designing high-performance systems.
• Some domain knowledge of Networking or willingness to learn.
• Experience designing full-stack apps with databases and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Implement, test and optimize new services and tools at scale.
• Collaborate with Networking teams to build next-gen products for developers.
• Support existing products and contribute creative solutions to pain points.
• Improve tooling and processes for robust, mission-critical components.
• Establish best practices for development and architecture.

Skills

Go programming

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Networking

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

gRPC

Prometheus

Grafana

Lightstep

SQL

Consul

Git

Jira

Temporal

Chef

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer 1 to join the Network Products team. You will write control plane software, develop APIs, troubleshoot customer experiences, and help own products end-to-end in a fast-paced, high-quality environment.

The role emphasizes Go, containerization, and scalable cloud services, with opportunities to influence architecture and drive robust distributed systems.