Senior Software Engineer II, Network Products

About DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is the AI-Native Cloud purpose-built for the inference and agentic era. Its five-layer integrated platform—spanning GPU and CPU infrastructure, core cloud, inference, data, and managed agent orchestration—is open throughout with no vendor lock-in, giving builders everything they need to start fast, scale production AI workloads, and improve unit economics. More than 650,000 customers and millions of developers globally trust DigitalOcean to build, ship, and scale their applications.

DigitalOcean

AI-Native Cloud. ☁️

Cloud ComputingCloud ServersVirtual HostingCloud HostingCloud InfrastructureSimple Hostingand Virtual Servers

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digitalocean.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Software Development

Broomfield, Colorado

2012

Public Company

177k LinkedIn followers

Raised $2.7B

• 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, DNS, eBPF, XDP, and Kubernetes
• Help to grow and mentor other engineers within Networking
• 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
• Domain knowledge of Networking stack and an eagerness to learn more
• Experience with leading work across multiple teams to build API contracts
• Experience with cloud development, containerization and virtualization
• Some experience with data plane programming like eBPF and XDP
• 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, DNS and Network Monitoring systems development
• Bonus: Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka
• B.S/M.S in Computer Science or relevant and equivalent experience.

• $167,200 - $209,000
• This is a remote role
• JR: 2026-8145
• #LI-Remote
• 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.
• 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.