Senior Software Engineer I, Network Products + LBaaS

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

As a Senior Software Engineer 1 at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role will be on the Network Products team, reporting to the Engineering Manager, where you will write control plane software: developing APIs, troubleshooting and improving the customer experience, and helping the team to own some of the product offerings end-to-end. Our team is passionate about quality, performance, and the reliability of the Network Products product suite and is excited about the impact our work has on the company and customers.

• Work as a member of the team on the implementation, testing and optimization of new services and tools that run at scale and solve performance and monitoring problems.

• Work with other teams within Networking 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.

• Help establish best practices for development and architecture and ways to achieve them

• Use technologies and tools such as: Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Chef, Git, Jira, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep, Docker, DNS, and Kubernetes

• Experience with Go programming language and unit tests

• Some experience designing and developing high performance systems

• Some domain knowledge of Networking stack or a strong willingness to learn

• Experience designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and API

• Experience with leading work across multiple teams to build API contracts

• Experience with cloud development, containerization and virtualization

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)

• Bonus: You have used gRPC to build robust distributed and high-demand systems

• Bonus: Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka

• B.S/M.S in Computer Science or relevant and equivalent experience.

• $139,200 - $174,000

JR: 2026-8309

*This is a hybrid role

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• 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.

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