Senior Software Engineer II, Compute
DigitalOcean4 hours ago
Base Salary
$167k - $209k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement scalable distributed control-plane microservices in Go for compute workloads across hypervisor nodes.
- Design gRPC interfaces and service contracts for high-throughput, fault-tolerant platform communication.
- Translate complex customer and system requirements into decoupled technical architectures.
- Optimize Linux kernel interactions and virtualization subsystems including KVM, Firecracker, and cgroups.
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance, architectural reviews, and code quality standards.
- Establish observability, failover strategies, and automated recovery frameworks.
- Participate in on-call support and continuous improvement activities for global data-center availability.
Requirements
- Experience with Go, high-throughput microservices architecture, gRPC, distributed control planes, or low-latency infrastructure APIs.
- Experience with low-level systems engineering, Linux kernel concepts, containerization, or hypervisor-level virtualization, including technologies such as KVM, Firecracker, eBPF, and cgroups.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, concurrency patterns, failure modes, and Linux performance optimization.
- Demonstrated ability to drive complex cross-team technical projects and mentor engineers.
- Strong communication, collaboration, learning, and system-maintainability orientation.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Conference, training, and education reimbursement.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning with more than 10,000 courses.
- Employee Assistance Program, local employee meetups, and flexible time off.
- Potential performance-based bonus and equity compensation, including equity grants 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.