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Staff Engineer, Network Infrastructure at DigitalOcean

Department: Core Cloud

Compensation

$191,200 – $239,000/yr

Setup
Remote
Location
San Francisco, California
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

DigitalOcean is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to design and build software for its global network infrastructure, including network automation, orchestration, provisioning, device lifecycle management, telemetry, remediation, and integration with DPUs, SmartNICs, and programmable network infrastructure. The role leads technical direction, architecture, RFCs, complex initiatives, and engineering standards while mentoring engineers and partnering with network, infrastructure, hardware, compute, storage, availability, security, and platform engineering teams. It requires significant production software experience, distributed systems and networking expertise, programming in Go, Python, or C++, and strong technical leadership and communication skills. The position is remote and offers a base salary of $191,200 to $239,000.

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