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Senior Software Engineer I

Posted 2 Hours Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
150K-174K Annually
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
150K-174K Annually
Senior level
Develop and maintain scalable control-plane software for DigitalOcean’s network products. Responsibilities include building APIs and microservices, implementing and optimizing services, troubleshooting customer issues, supporting existing products, improving development processes, and contributing to architecture and engineering best practices. The role involves end-to-end SDLC ownership, CI/CD deployment, distributed systems, containerized workloads, and collaboration across networking teams.
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Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here.  We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world. 

As a Senior Software Engineer 1 at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role will be on the Network Products team, reporting to the Engineering Manager, where you will write control plane software: developing APIs, troubleshooting and improving the customer experience, and helping the team to own some of the product offerings end-to-end. Our team is passionate about quality, performance, and the reliability of the Network Products product suite and is excited about the impact our work has on the company and customers.

What You’ll Do:
  • Work as a member of the team on the implementation, testing and optimization of new services and tools that run at scale and solve performance and monitoring problems.
  • Work with other teams within Networking to build the next generation of products and services for our developers community.
  • Support existing products and contribute creative solutions to the pain points.
  • Help improve our toolings and process to ship robust and mission-critical parts of the ecosystem.
  • Help establish best practices for development and architecture and ways to achieve them
  • Use technologies and tools such as: Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Chef, Git, Jira, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep, Docker, DNS, and Kubernetes
What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:
  • Of experience required, must also have 4 years of experience in:
    • Developing APIs using code
    • Performing end-to-end design, build, test & deploy (SDLC)
    • Collaborating with developers on a single code base
    • Shipping code using CI/CD pipelines & frameworks
    • Building microservices using container workload engines & frameworks such as Docker & Kubernetes
    • Developing & maintaining software; & building & maintaining distributed 

100% telecommuting position. Must live within commuting distance of San Francisco; Austin; Denver; Seattle; or Boston.

Compensation Range: 
  • $150,000 - $174,000

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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
  • We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
  • We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
  • We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
  • We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.

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