Job Description

DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.

We want people who are passionate about building huge scale networks on the Internet.

We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join the existing network engineering team, working with the infrastructure group. Reporting to the Manager of Network Engineering, the Network Engineer will be part of a team that is designing, implementing and maintaining the DigitalOcean network from the Internet edge to the hypervisor connections.  Our networks need to be massively scalable, and enable systems agility, while providing our hundreds of thousands of customers with the most stable platform.  We work with other infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure new products and features have scalable network architectures and will provide the performance our customers require.

If you’re looking for a Network Engineering role to challenge your skills and be rewarding and fulfilling, while working with top of the line equipment and managing a large network with huge scaling requirements and modern design, this job is for you.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Providing hands-on technical design and engineering for network-related tools and systems
• Working with networking-focused software engineers to develop/maintain our SDN solution and integration
• Developing and contributing to open source projects relating to network and platform engineering
• Developing and maintaining network automation solutions

What We'll Expect From You:

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree
• Knowledge of network engineering and experience working with vendors such as Juniper, Cisco or Arista
• Knowledge of and demonstrated ability in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python
• Expertise with Linux
• Experience with CI/CD, containers and/or virtualization, web servers, and databases
• Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack
• Experience with automation frameworks (Salt preferred)

Technologies we use:

• Programming languages: Python, Go
• Tools: Salt, Ansible, NAPALM, NetBox, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Hasura GraphQL
• Technologies and standards: IPFIX, OpenConfig, NETCONF