Senior Software Engineer II, Network Products

digitalocean98; United States; Remote; USD 167,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role

Bonus potential

Equity participation

Job summary

DigitalOcean in the United States is seeking a senior software architect/lead developer for its Network Products team. The role blends API development, performance optimization, and end-to-end ownership of networking offerings, with emphasis on reliability at scale.

You will design and implement services, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams using Go, Consul, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes and related tools.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a software architect and lead developer building scalable, real-time, distributed systems.
• Significant hands-on experience with Go and unit testing.
• Working knowledge of the networking stack with a desire to deepen it.
• Experience leading cross-team API contract work and with cloud development, containerization, and virtualization.
• Solid CI/CD experience, plus some data-plane programming with eBPF or XDP.
• A proven record of sweeping improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across business-critical systems and of automating delivery from development through ongoing production operation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, testing, and optimization of new services and tools that address performance and monitoring challenges at scale.
• Partner across networking and the wider company to build next-generation offerings for a developer community.
• Support existing products, surface creative solutions to operational pain points, and improve tooling and processes for mission-critical releases.
• Establish architectural and development best practices and help grow and mentor other engineers.
• Work with technologies including Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Chef, Git, Jira, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep, Docker, Kubernetes, DNS, eBPF, and XDP.

Skills

Go

Unit testing

Distributed systems

Leadership

CI/CD

Education

BS in CS or equivalent

Tools

Consul

Kafka

SQL

Chef

Git

Jira

gRPC

Prometheus

Grafana

Lightstep

Docker

Kubernetes

DNS

eBPF

XDP

Job description

Role overview

Step into a senior individual-contributor role on a Network Products team that builds both control plane and data plane software for a large cloud platform. The position blends API development, customer experience improvements, and end-to-end ownership of networking product offerings, with a strong emphasis on quality, performance, and reliability at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, testing, and optimization of new services and tools that address performance and monitoring challenges at scale.
• Partner across networking and the wider company to build next-generation offerings for a developer community.
• Support existing products, surface creative solutions to operational pain points, and improve tooling and processes for mission-critical releases.
• Establish architectural and development best practices and help grow and mentor other engineers.
• Work with technologies including Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Chef, Git, Jira, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep, Docker, Kubernetes, DNS, eBPF, and XDP.

Requirements

• Significant experience as a software architect and lead developer building scalable, real-time, distributed systems.
• Significant hands-on experience with Go and unit testing.
• Working knowledge of the networking stack with a desire to deepen it.
• Experience leading cross-team API contract work and with cloud development, containerization, and virtualization.
• Solid CI/CD experience, plus some data-plane programming with eBPF or XDP.
• A proven record of sweeping improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across business-critical systems and of automating delivery from development through ongoing production operation.

Nice to have

• Building robust, distributed, high-demand systems with gRPC.
• Experience developing firewall, DNS, or network monitoring systems.
• Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka.
• A B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote role with a base salary range of $167,200 to $209,000, plus potential bonus and equity participation.
• Conference and training reimbursement, broad online learning access, and flexible time off.