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.

As an Engineer on the Network Products and Engineering team, you will write software, build microservices and solve complex distributed systems problems.  You will be responsible for building the next generation of software-defined networking on our platform: providing flexible, yet simple, primitives that our customers have come to love.  It will be a great opportunity to get your hands dirty in Go, MySQL and build out micro services with all the latest technologies related to Observability i.e. LightStep, Prometheus, Grafana.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Solving problems with distributed systems to reduce bottlenecks, single points of failures and inter-dependencies of our many regions.
• Designing and building highly efficient micro-services to enable new features and internal tooling around the virtual network stack.
• Diving deep into the ocean of highly available & fault-tolerant virtual networking.
• Debugging/troubleshooting complex production issues across datacenters in real time and enhancing our playbooks and automation to counter their recurrence.
• Participating in a team effort to improve visibility on various network metrics.
• Using technologies and tools such as: Linux, Go, gRPC, eBPF, Open vSwitch, Prometheus, Ansible, MySQL, and others!

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Language: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, ship, maintain, and operate production-ready code and systems using couple of the following languages: Go, Perl, Python, C/C++
• 3+ years of experience developing scalable, resilient, fault tolerant and highly distributed systems coupled with a good understanding of microservice architecture.
• Experience developing full-stack applications with databases and API
• Understanding of basic networking concepts and the OSI network model, along with some experience around developing network software systems
• Ability to self-organize, take ownership, initiative and clearly communicate intent. Ours is a globally distributed team so the ability to communicate effectively in a remote environment is key to being a part of this team and its success.
• Bonus: Hands-on experience working on Linux networking including tools for network I/O performance tuning is a huge plus.
• Bonus: Prior development experience around firewalls, web security, IDP/IPS, eBPF, XDP, Open vSwitch, SDN, development of datapath for packet routing and forwarding is a huge plus!