Senior Software Engineer I, Cloud & Networking (Go/Kafka)

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

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 and improve the customer experience, and help own product offerings end-to-end.

The role emphasizes quality, performance, and reliability as you collaborate across teams and work with Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud services in a hybrid role based in Seattle area.

Qualifications

• Experience with Go programming language and unit tests.
• Designing and developing high performance systems.
• Willingness to learn Networking stack.
• Designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and APIs.
• Leading work across multiple teams to build API contracts.
• Experience with cloud development, containerization and virtualization.
• CI/CD experience.
• Bonus: gRPC, Temporal and Kafka proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Implement, test and optimize services and tools that run at scale.
• Collaborate with Networking teams to build next-gen products and services.
• Support existing products and contribute solutions to pain points.
• Improve tooling and processes to ship robust, mission-critical components.
• Establish best practices for development and architecture.
• Utilize technologies such as Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes.

Skills

Go

Unit tests

High performance

Networking

APIs

Full-stack

API contracts

Cloud development

CI/CD

gRPC

Temporal

Kafka

Education

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

Tools

Consul

Kafka

SQL

Chef

Git

Jira

gRPC

Prometheus

Grafana

Lightstep

Docker

DNS

Kubernetes

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 and improve the customer experience, and help own product offerings end-to-end.

The role emphasizes quality, performance, and reliability as you collaborate across teams and work with Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud services in a hybrid role based in Seattle area.