DigitalOcean is hiring a Senior Software Engineer I to design and implement low-latency distributed control plane services using Go, build scalable microservices (gRPC/REST), mentor engineers, participate in on-call support, and solve systems-level and performance issues. Role is remote; listed salary range $139,200–$174,000.

DigitalOcean is hiring a Senior Software Engineer I to design and implement low-latency, fault-tolerant distributed control plane services using Go. The role involves building scalable microservices (gRPC/REST), troubleshooting production incidents (on-call), mentoring engineers, and improving system architecture and operational workflows. Knowledge of containerization/virtualization (e.g., Kubernetes, Firecracker) and Linux performance tuning is required.

DigitalOcean is hiring a Senior Software Engineer I to design and implement low-latency, fault-tolerant distributed control plane services using Go. The role involves building scalable microservices (gRPC/REST), troubleshooting production incidents (on-call), mentoring engineers, and improving architecture, performance, and operational workflows.

Lead architecture, implementation, and operation of scalable control-plane and infrastructure components for DigitalOcean Managed Databases. Responsibilities include designing for multi-region operability, performance and resiliency improvements, lifecycle features (failover, backups, PITR), operating services (on-call, observability, incident follow-up), and mentoring engineers. Requires 8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems and familiarity with relational database internals. Salary range listed: $167,200–$209,000/year.

DigitalOcean is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for its Managed Databases (DBaaS) team to design and implement scalable control-plane and infrastructure components. The role focuses on improving throughput, multi-region operability, reliability, automated failover, backups/PITR, and handling data- and AI-adjacent workloads; it requires 8+ years of relevant experience and production expertise with PostgreSQL/MySQL and distributed systems. This is a remote role with the stated salary range.

DigitalOcean is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for the Network Products team to design, implement, test and optimize scalable control- and data-plane services. The role emphasizes Go development, distributed systems, networking (including eBPF/XDP), observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD, and cross-team API work. Position listed as remote; Denver is noted as a location.

Join DigitalOcean's DNS Products team to develop control-plane software and APIs, support and optimize services at scale, troubleshoot and improve customer experience, and collaborate across networking and product teams. Technologies mentioned include Go, gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Consul, Chef, SQL, Lightstep, and CI/CD. Degree in CS or equivalent experience is listed; role is remote with a stated annual compensation range.

DigitalOcean is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the DNS Products team (remote). The role focuses on writing control-plane software, developing and testing APIs, improving customer experience, and operating services at scale. Technologies and areas include Go, gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus/Grafana, Linux (Ubuntu), CI/CD, DNS and networking, and distributed/high-performance systems.

Join the DNS Products team to develop, test, and operate control-plane services and APIs using Go and cloud/container technologies. Responsibilities include improving customer experience, operating Linux hosts, working with distributed systems (Kafka, gRPC), and contributing to CI/CD and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep).

Work on packet-processing and forwarding systems across host, kernel, user space, and hardware-accelerated datapaths. Develop and optimize networking features (routing, tunneling, load balancing, virtualization), integrate with DPUs/SmartNICs, build observability and benchmarking frameworks, and drive architecture and design documentation. Mentor engineers and collaborate with Network Infrastructure, Compute, and hardware teams to operate and scale production networking systems.

Lead technical work on benchmarking and optimizing inference engines and GPU kernels to maximize throughput and minimize latency for large models. Responsibilities include attention-layer and memory optimizations, quantization (FP8/INT8/FP4), kernel fusion, multi-node GPU parallelization, and advising on GPU hardware/software stacks (CUDA, ROCm, Triton). Requires 5+ years in high-performance computing or AI infrastructure. Salary range provided.

Responsible for defining DigitalOcean's reference architectures for next-generation data center environments (air to liquid to 800VDC rack-scale), leading MEP coordination for colocation and build-to-suit sites, architecting cooling and power topologies, driving PoCs to global standards, and mentoring engineers. Requires 10+ years in data center architecture/infrastructure; compensation listed as $184,000–$231,000/year.

Principal Datacenter Architect responsible for defining reference architectures for next-generation data centers (air to liquid to 800VDC rack-scale), owning MEP requirements across colocation and build-to-suit facilities, leading PoCs and vendor integrations, guiding site selection and non-traditional infrastructure approaches, and mentoring engineers. Requires 10+ years experience. This is a hybrid role based in Seattle.

Hands-on senior engineer responsible for architecting and implementing high-availability, low-latency IAM services in Go; building OIDC/SAML SSO integrations; evolving a policy engine (Rego/OPA) for advanced permissions; operating Kubernetes deployments and modern eventing pipelines; and mentoring junior engineers. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience and strong identity, distributed systems, and cloud-native expertise.

Senior Software Engineer (IC3) responsible for designing and developing high-availability, low-latency authentication and authorization services in Go; implementing OIDC/SAML SSO integrations; evolving a policy engine (Rego/OPA) for advanced authorization; operating services on Kubernetes; and mentoring engineers. Requires 5+ years software engineering experience and strong identity, distributed systems, and cloud-native skills. Role is listed as remote.

Senior Solutions Architect II focused on cloud infrastructure and AI/ML who will work with Sales, Customer Success, and Engineering to retain and grow large customers. Responsibilities include architecture reviews, POCs, LLM and GenAI deployment and optimization (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face, CUDA/TensorRT), Kubernetes-based solutions, infrastructure best practices, cost and performance optimization, and delivering technical workshops and documentation. Fluency in English required.