Senior Network Software Engineer - Go & Cloud

DigitalOcean; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer 2 to join the Network Products team in Seattle. You will design and implement scalable services, optimize performance, and own key APIs, contributing to customer reliability and experience.

You bring strong Go skills, real-world experience with distributed systems, and a solid networking background to lead multi-team efforts and mentor engineers in a fast-paced, production-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a software architect and lead developer for scalable, real-time systems.
• Strong Go programming skills with focus on testing and reliability.
• Domain knowledge of networking stacks and API contract design.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, testing, and optimization of scalable services.
• Collaborate across Networking and other teams to build next-gen products.
• Support existing products and propose solutions to pain points.
• Improve tooling and processes for robust, production-grade software.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

API design

Leadership

Networking

CI/CD

Go tests

Kubernetes

gRPC

Docker

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Consul

Kafka

SQL

Chef

Git

Jira

Prometheus

Grafana

Lightstep

DNS

eBPF

XDP

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer 2 to join the Network Products team in Seattle. You will design and implement scalable services, optimize performance, and own key APIs, contributing to customer reliability and experience.

You bring strong Go skills, real-world experience with distributed systems, and a solid networking background to lead multi-team efforts and mentor engineers in a fast-paced, production-focused environment.