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# Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/ML

- **Company:** DigitalOcean, LLC
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $184,000.0 - $231,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Application Services, Computer Vision, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Language Modeling, Azure Machine Learning, Delivery Pipeline, Large Language Models
- **Published:** May 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=95bb39cca21b6aff

## About the Role

* Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, tracing, insights, language modeling, computer vision)
 * Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
 * 8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
 * Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teamsKnowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or GoDesign of cloud ready systems and architectures.

## Description

* Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a teamDrive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
 * Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale AI application services such as ADK, agentic tools
 * Maintain and develop APIs, MCPs and SDKs
 * Collaborate on design and UXBuild and scale products to achieve operational excellenceIndependently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
 * Partner with SRE/DevOps on reliability, observability, incident response, and deployment workflows
 * Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions


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