Software Engineer II (Network Automation)

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

We want people who are passionate about automating large scale networks on the Internet.

We are looking for a Software Engineer (Network Automation) to join the existing network engineering team, working with the infrastructure group. Reporting to the Manager of Networking Infra, the software engineer will be part of a team that is automating and maintaining the DigitalOcean network handling all the traffic from the Internet edge to the hypervisors. Our networks need to be massively scalable, and enable systems agility, while providing our hundreds of thousands of customers with the most stable platform. We work with other infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure new products and features have scalable network architectures and will provide the performance our customers require.

If you’re looking for a software engineering role to challenge your skills and be rewarding and fulfilling, while working with top of the line network infrastructure and help build software to manage a large network with huge scaling requirements and modern design, this job is for you.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Designing, developing and maintaining software tools/automation for networking infra and systems to help us manage our networks across all of our sites at DO.

• Working with networking infrastructure focused engineers to develop/maintain our network automation and monitoring platform

• Helping to maintain good code quality by providing guidance during code reviews

• Leverage AI coding tools to rapidly prototype and roll out solutions

What We'll Expect From You:

• B.Tech./B.E./B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent degree

• Knowledge of basic networking concepts and either have previous experience or have a strong interest in learning and working on software and tools to automate data center networks.

• Knowledge of and demonstrated ability in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python

• Familiarity with Linux

• Familiarity with CI/CD, containers and/or virtualization, web servers, and databases

• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack is preferred.

• Familiarity with automation frameworks (Salt preferred, Ansible)