Senior Software Engineer II — High-Performance Cloud Infra

DigitalOcean; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean in Seattle seeks a Senior Software Engineer II to architect scalable distributed control planes and optimize high-throughput workloads across hypervisor nodes. You will bridge API design with kernel-level performance and mentor teammates to raise engineering standards.

You’ll own Go microservices, design gRPC interfaces, improve observability, and contribute to platform resilience across global data centers.

Qualifications

• Experience with Go, high-throughput microservices architecture, gRPC, and building distributed control planes or low-latency infrastructure APIs.
• Experience with low-level systems engineering, Linux kernel concepts, containerization, or hypervisor-level virtualization (e.g., KVM, Firecracker, eBPF, cgroups).
• A deep understanding of scalable cloud infrastructure and distributed systems design.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable distributed control plane microservices in Go to orchestrate compute workloads across hypervisor nodes.
• Design robust gRPC interfaces and service contracts for high-throughput communication across boundaries.
• Translate customer and system requirements into decoupled architectures to drive value delivery across teams.
• Optimize Linux kernel interactions and virtualization subsystems to maximize compute performance and uptime.
• Mentor teammates through architectural reviews and code quality standards.
• Establish observability, failover strategies, and automated recovery to minimize platform toil.
• Participate in on-call support and continuous improvement retrospectives for uptime.

Skills

Go

High-throughput microservices

gRPC

Distributed control planes

Linux kernel concepts

Containerization

KVM

Firecracker

eBPF

cgroups

Tools

Go

KVM

Firecracker

eBPF

cgroups

gRPC

Job description

DigitalOcean in Seattle seeks a Senior Software Engineer II to architect scalable distributed control planes and optimize high-throughput workloads across hypervisor nodes. You will bridge API design with kernel-level performance and mentor teammates to raise engineering standards.

You’ll own Go microservices, design gRPC interfaces, improve observability, and contribute to platform resilience across global data centers.