Staff Software Engineer

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 Engineer at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role will be on the Network Product team, reporting to the Engineering Manager, where you will write cloud security and monitoring software, design and develop APIs that are used by external and internal customers. Our team is passionate about quality, performance and reliability of delivered products.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the design, implementation, test and optimization of new services and tools that run at scale and solve performance and monitoring problems.
• Work with other teams within Networking and across the company 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.
• Establish best practices for development and architecture
• Use technologies and tools such as: Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Chef, Git, Jira, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep, Docker, Kubernetes and what not?

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Significant experience as a software architect and lead developer in building scalable, real-time and distributed systems
• Significant experience with Go programming language and unit tests
• Significant experience designing and developing high performance systems
• Domain knowledge of Networking stack
• Experience designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and API
• Experience with leading work across multiple teams to build API contracts
• Experience with cloud development, containerization and virtualization
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)
• Record of creating sweeping improvements in stability, performance and scalability across major business-critical systems
• Record of automating the steps necessary to deliver high-quality, well-tested, and production-ready software from initial development to ongoing, scalable, production operation.
• Bonus: You have used gRPC to build robust distributed and high-demand systems
• Bonus: Experience with Firewall and Network Monitoring systems development
• Bonus: Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka
• B.S/M.S in Computer Science

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 $170,000 - $210,000 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 Sto