Senior Software Engineer II, Network Products at DigitalOcean

Department: Core Cloud

Compensation

$167,200 – $209,000/yr

Setup: Remote
Location: Denver, Colorado
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 22, 2026

Description

DigitalOcean is hiring a Senior Software Engineer 2 for its Network Products team to design, implement, test, and optimize scalable control-plane and data-plane software. The role involves developing APIs, improving customer experience and product reliability, establishing development and architecture best practices, and mentoring engineers. It requires significant experience with distributed systems, Go, networking, cloud development, containerization, virtualization, CI/CD, and data-plane technologies such as eBPF and XDP. The position is remote and offers a base salary of $167,200 to $209,000, with potential bonus and equity compensation.

Required Skills

Go
Consul
Kafka
SQL
Chef
Git
Jira
gRPC
Prometheus
Grafana
Lightstep
Docker
DNS
eBPF
XDP
Kubernetes

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in Computer Science, or relevant equivalent experience
Required Previous Experiences: Significant experience as a software architect and lead developer building scalable, real-time, and distributed systems
Significant experience with Go programming language and unit tests
Domain knowledge of networking stacks
Experience leading work across multiple teams to build API contracts
Experience with cloud development, containerization, and virtualization
Experience with continuous integration and delivery
Experience with data-plane programming using eBPF and XDP
Record of improving stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems
Experience automating software delivery from development through scalable production operations
Preferred Qualifications: Experience using gRPC to build robust distributed and high-demand systems
Experience developing firewall, DNS, and network monitoring systems
Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka
Translation Company Name: DigitalOcean

About DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

cloud computing

Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.

Open roles: 115
New in 30 days: 67
Founded: 2012

Who they serve

DigitalOcean’s cloud computing solutions are tailored to startups and small businesses. DigitalOcean serves software developers and small-to-medium-sized businesses.

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