Staff Engineer, Network Infrastructure

digitalocean98; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development support

Flexible time off

Employee assistance

Equity compensation

Bonus potential

Job summary

digitalocean98 is seeking a staff-level engineer to lead the design and delivery of software that automates and operates large-scale network infrastructure. You will drive architecture across distributed systems, networking, and hardware acceleration, guiding proposals from early concept through production operation.

You will build provisioning, orchestration, and automation systems for data centers and points of presence, integrating with programmable network hardware and vendor SDKs.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building production software systems at scale, with strong grounding in distributed systems, APIs, concurrency, testing, observability, and reliability.
• Strong programming experience in Go, Python, C++, or a comparable language.
• Experience developing infrastructure, automation, or orchestration platforms.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, VLANs, routing, switching, and telemetry.
• Experience integrating with network devices, automation frameworks, APIs, or vendor SDKs, and designing for safe, highly available production operation.
• Ability to simplify ambiguous infrastructure problems, influence engineering decisions, and produce clear technical proposals and implementation plans.

Responsibilities

• Build systems for network provisioning, configuration, device lifecycle management, validation, monitoring, and automated recovery.
• Develop orchestration software that integrates with programmable network hardware and acceleration devices.
• Automate infrastructure deployments across data centers and points of presence, including support for new equipment, network fabrics, routing, and vendor integrations.
• Create tools that help engineers diagnose issues and replace repetitive, error-prone operational work with reliable software.
• Partner with network and infrastructure specialists to turn complex requirements into maintainable designs.
• Lead architecture and project decisions, document proposals and plans, set engineering practices, and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Python

C++

Networking concepts

APIs

Job description

Role overview

Lead the design and delivery of software that automates and operates large-scale network infrastructure. The work spans distributed systems, networking, and hardware acceleration, with a staff-level remit to set technical direction and guide complex initiatives from early proposals through production operation.

Responsibilities

• Build systems for network provisioning, configuration, device lifecycle management, validation, monitoring, and automated recovery.
• Develop orchestration software that integrates with programmable network hardware and acceleration devices.
• Automate infrastructure deployments across data centers and points of presence, including support for new equipment, network fabrics, routing, and vendor integrations.
• Create tools that help engineers diagnose issues and replace repetitive, error-prone operational work with reliable software.
• Partner with network and infrastructure specialists to turn complex requirements into maintainable designs.
• Lead architecture and project decisions, document proposals and plans, set engineering practices, and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

• Significant experience building production software systems at scale, with strong grounding in distributed systems, APIs, concurrency, testing, observability, and reliability.
• Strong programming experience in Go, Python, C++, or a comparable language.
• Experience developing infrastructure, automation, or orchestration platforms.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, VLANs, routing, switching, and telemetry.
• Experience integrating with network devices, automation frameworks, APIs, or vendor SDKs, and designing for safe, highly available production operation.
• Ability to simplify ambiguous infrastructure problems, influence engineering decisions, and produce clear technical proposals and implementation plans.

Benefits and work setup

The role is remote. The source describes professional development support, flexible time off, employee assistance, and potential bonus and equity compensation; specific benefits may depend on location.