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# Software Engineer 2

- **Company:** DigitalOcean, LLC
- **Location:** Denver, CO, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $167,200.0 - $209,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, Unit Testing, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Domain Name System (DNS), Network Architecture, Network Control, Network Monitoring, Software Architecture, Systems Development Life Cycle, Digitalocean, Prometheus, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Virtualization Technology, Computer Networking Systems, Grafana, Firewalls (Computer Science), Git, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Api Design, Grpc, Api Management, Docker, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-software-engineer-ii-network-products-denver-co--54d5ddb8-6ff0-454a-b205-e8b960394483

## About the Role

* Significant experience as a software architect and lead developer in building scalable, real-time, and distributed systems
 * Significant experience with Go programming language and unit tests
 * Domain knowledge of Networking stack and an eagerness to learn more
 * 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)
 * Some experience with data plane programming like eBPF and XDP
 * Record of creating sweeping improvements in stability, performance and scalability across major business-critical systems
 * Record of automating the steps necessary to deliver high-quality, well-tested, and production-ready software from initial development to ongoing, scalable, production operation.
 * Bonus: You have used gRPC to build robust distributed and high-demand systems
 * Bonus: Experience with Firewall, DNS and Network Monitoring systems development
 * Bonus: Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka
 * B.S/M.S in Computer Science or relevant and equivalent experience., Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Best Practices, Career Development, Cloud Computing, Community and Social Services, Computer Science, Conferences, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Customer Experience, DNS (Domain Name System), Distributed Computing, Ecosystems, Establish Priorities, Firewalls, Genetics, Go Programming Language (Golang), Identify Issues, Leadership, Leading Edge Technology, LinkedIn, Mentoring, Military, Network Architecture/Engineering, Network Monitoring, Network Systems, Organizational Development/Management, Performance Analysis, Problem Solving Skills, Product Support, Scalable System Development, Software Architecture, Software Development, Software Engineering, Team Player, Testing, Unit Test, Virtualization

## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer 2 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 and data 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.

What You'll Do:

 * Lead the design, implementation, test and optimization of new services and tools that run at scale and solve performance and monitoring problems.
 * Work with other teams within Networking and across the company 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.
 * Establish best practices for development and architecture
 * Use technologies and tools such as: Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Chef, Git, Jira, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep, Docker, DNS, eBPF, XDP, and Kubernetes
 * Help to grow and mentor other engineers within Networking