Senior Software Engineer-Network
DigitalOcean5 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and highly concurrent asynchronous workflows for virtual machine provisioning, placement, and lifecycle management.
- Integrate control planes with KVM, QEMU, and host virtualization layers to manage compute resources, block storage attachments, and virtual networking context.
- Build and operate scalable gRPC and REST APIs connecting compute orchestration engines, host metadata services, and internal infrastructure platforms.
- Collaborate on host infrastructure supporting high-density hyperthreading, autoscaling policies, and customer SLA guarantees.
- Drive code reviews, comprehensive testing, and technical design documentation.
- Monitor system performance, investigate control-plane bottlenecks, and maintain reliable compute orchestration systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building highly concurrent, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
- Deep proficiency in Python and Go, or strong C++/Java experience with willingness to quickly learn Python and Go.
- Hands-on experience with durable workflow orchestration engines for distributed state, hardware scheduling, and long-running asynchronous tasks.
- Working knowledge of virtualization, hypervisors, containerization, or low-level system isolation technologies such as KVM, QEMU, libvirt, Docker, or microVMs.
- Experience building resilient APIs and handling high-throughput telemetry, control-plane signals, or message streams.
- Understanding of host resource scheduling, storage and network virtualization trade-offs, and multi-tenant infrastructure architecture.
- Strong ownership, communication, and collaboration skills for working in a globally distributed team.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Bengaluru, India.
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning’s 10,000+ courses.
- Employee Assistance Program, local employee meetups, and flexible time off.
- Potential bonus and equity compensation, including eligible equity grants upon hire and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean provides cloud infrastructure and platform services for developers, startups, and small to mid-sized businesses, including virtual machines (Droplets), managed Kubernetes and databases, object/block storage, networking, and GPUs for AI workloads. It operates a usage-based, self-service public cloud with APIs, CLI, and a marketplace to deploy and scale applications. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, DigitalOcean is a public company listed on the NYSE.