Senior Software Engineer I, Network APIs & LBaaS

DigitalOcean; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Equity compensation

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer 1 to join the Network Products team in Seattle. You will write control plane software, develop APIs, troubleshoot, and own core product offerings end-to-end.

You’ll work with Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes and related tools to improve quality, performance and reliability for developers. The role is hybrid in Seattle with opportunities to impact customers and the broader ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Experience with Go programming language and unit tests.
• Some experience designing and developing high performance systems.
• Some domain knowledge of Networking stack or a strong willingness to learn.
• Experience designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and API.
• Experience leading work across multiple teams to build API contracts.
• Experience with cloud development, containerization and virtualization.
• Experience with CI/CD.
• Bonus: gRPC experience for distributed systems.
• Bonus: Temporal and Kafka knowledge.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

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 propose solutions to pain points.
• Improve tooling and processes to ship robust, mission-critical components.
• Establish development and architecture best practices.
• Work with Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes and related tech.

Skills

Go programming

Unit tests

High performance systems

Networking knowledge

Full-stack apps & API

API contracts leadership

Cloud development

CI/CD

gRPC

Temporal

Kafka

Temporal & Kafka

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Consul

Kafka

SQL

Chef

Git

Jira

gRPC

Prometheus

Grafana

Lightstep

Docker

DNS

Kubernetes

Temporal

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer 1 to join the Network Products team in Seattle. You will write control plane software, develop APIs, troubleshoot, and own core product offerings end-to-end.

You’ll work with Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes and related tools to improve quality, performance and reliability for developers. The role is hybrid in Seattle with opportunities to impact customers and the broader ecosystem.