Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

Based in New York and Cambridge, MA, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing for every developer. We are working on solving some of the most challenging and interesting technology projects around, on a scale unmatched by few companies.

We want people who are passionate about building huge scale networks on the Internet.

We are looking for a network engineer to join the existing network engineering team, working within the infrastructure group. The network team is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the DigitalOcean network as a whole. Our networks need to be massively scalable, while providing our hundreds of thousands of customers with the most stable platform possible. We work closely with other infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure new products and features have scalable network architectures and will provide the performance our customers require.

If you’re looking for a Network Engineering role in a challenging but rewarding environment where you’ll work with top of the line equipment and look after a network with huge scaling requirements, this job is for you

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Rolling out new network infrastructure to our various locations around the world
• Ensuring that our existing network is running at its peak
• Providing support to customers who are experiencing network related issues
• Responding to and troubleshooting alerts as well as participating in our on-call rotation
• Working closely with other teams within the infrastructure group to build a scalable and economical network
• Optimizing our automation systems
• Assisting with architecting networks with huge scale requirements

What We’ll Expect From You:

• Experience working on, building, and troubleshooting large scale, datacenter networks
• Experience working with Juniper equipment, such as MX, QFX, EX, SRX
• Extensive experience working with all the usual layer 2 and layer 3 protocols such as BGP, OSPF, VRRP, BBQ, LOL, VXLAN, MPLS, RSVP-TE
• Big points for MPLS, RSVP-TE Experience
• Understanding of peering and transit and their roles on the Internet
• The ability to function independently on routine tasks and project work
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Strong linux skills along with experience in Python or any other similar language
• Understanding of overlay and underlay networking concepts would also be highly regarded
• Certifications are nice, but not required
• Bonus points for any optical networking experience

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
• We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
• We care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
• We invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We want you to love where you work. We have great office spaces located in the heart of SoHo NYC and Cambridge, and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to take an all-expense-paid trip to our office to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in office.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.