Staff Engineer, Programmable Networking & DPUs

DigitalOcean; United States; Remote; USD 191,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role

Job summary

DigitalOcean is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of software powering our global network infrastructure. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, networking, distributed systems, and hardware acceleration.

You will work with network, infrastructure, and hardware engineering teams to turn complex requirements into scalable software, author RFCs and architecture docs, and drive initiatives from concept through implementation.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing and building production software systems at scale.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, API design, concurrency, observability, and reliability.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or C++ and experience with network automation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and build network automation and orchestration systems for global infrastructure.
• Develop software for provisioning, configuration, lifecycle management, monitoring, and remediation.
• Integrate with DPUs/SmartNICs and programmable infrastructure.
• Lead projects from design through deployment and operation; mentor engineers.

Skills

Production software

Distributed systems

Go/Python/C++

Network programming

Technical leadership

RFC/architecture docs

Problem decomposition

Tools

Kubernetes

DPUs/SmartNICs

eBPF/P4

gNMI/NETCONF

Job description

DigitalOcean is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of software powering our global network infrastructure. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, networking, distributed systems, and hardware acceleration.

You will work with network, infrastructure, and hardware engineering teams to turn complex requirements into scalable software, author RFCs and architecture docs, and drive initiatives from concept through implementation.