Staff Network Infrastructure Engineer — Remote

Emploive; Denver, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role

Equity compensation

Performance bonus

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and build software powering our global network infrastructure. You will tackle automation, orchestration, and infrastructure software that scales across data centers, DPUs, and programmable networks.

You'll lead architectural decisions, author RFCs and design docs, and mentor engineers while driving high-impact initiatives from concept to operation.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing and building production software systems at scale.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: distributed systems, API design, concurrency, testing, observability, reliability.
• Strong programming experience in Go, Python, or C++.
• Experience building automation, orchestration, or infrastructure platforms.
• Strong understanding of networking: TCP/IP, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, VLANs, routing, switching, telemetry.
• Experience with network devices, automation frameworks, APIs, or vendor SDKs.
• Experience in highly available, production environments.
• Ability to simplify complex problems into scalable software architectures.
• Strong technical writing skills: RFCs, docs, proposals, plans.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into technical proposals and plans.
• Strong communication and influence across teams.
• Operate as technical leader without organizational authority.

Responsibilities

• Design and build network automation and orchestration systems that enable reliable deployment and operation of DigitalOcean's global network infrastructure.
• Develop software for network provisioning, configuration management, device lifecycle management, validation, monitoring, and automated remediation.
• Design and build software systems that integrate with DPUs, SmartNICs, and programmable network infrastructure.
• Develop automation supporting large-scale datacenter and Point of Presence deployments, including new hardware, network fabrics, routing infrastructure, and vendor integrations.
• Build systems that abstract differences across network vendors, and hardware implementations while maintaining strong operational safety and reliability.
• Build tools that help engineers diagnose network and infrastructure issues and automate common operational workflows.
• Identify manual, repetitive, or error-prone infrastructure operations and turn them into scalable software solutions.
• Partner closely with network engineers and infrastructure architects to translate complex networking and hardware requirements into maintainable software architectures.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for infrastructure software development, testing, observability, and operational readiness.
• Lead projects from early technical design through implementation, deployment, and long-term operation.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across the broader engineering organization.

Skills

Production software at scale

Distributed systems

Go/Python/C++

Networking fundamentals

Technical writing

Communication & leadership

Tools

APIs

Vendor SDKs

Network automation frameworks

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and build software powering our global network infrastructure. You will tackle automation, orchestration, and infrastructure software that scales across data centers, DPUs, and programmable networks.

You'll lead architectural decisions, author RFCs and design docs, and mentor engineers while driving high-impact initiatives from concept to operation.