Senior Engineer II; Fleet Virtualization

Senior Engineer II (Fleet Virtualization)

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. Dive in and do the best work of your career k in a fast‑paced environment, with a growth mindset and a drive to build scalable cloud solutions.

This role is within the fleet virtualization team. The team's mission is to provide an abstraction layer between underlying hardware and the operating system to deliver security, flexibility, and efficiency gains critical to cloud providers.

• Design, develop, test, and implement the IT systems underlying Digital Ocean's core virtual machine (“Droplet”) product.
• Work with Digital Ocean's Observability teams to collect and analyze metrics regarding Digital Ocean's products and infrastructure; utilize this data to improve Digital Ocean's products and services.
• Engage in peer reviews for suggested changes to Digital Ocean systems.
• Contribute to retrospectives enabling Digital Ocean to continuously improve software engineering processes in an agile manner.
• Develop and lead execution of test plans to continue to provide reliable service to customers and ensure any customer‑impacting incidents will not be repeated.
• Maintain Digital Ocean's existing low‑level virtual machine stack while preparing it to support future software updates and new hardware.
• Accelerate the virtualization of next‑generation GPU‑enabled platforms that power AI/ML workloads.
• Work with hardware engineering teams and vendors to validate GPU fabric performance. Optimize performance while maintaining DO’s high security standards.
• Collaborate with open source Linux, QEMU and libvirt communities to drive the evolution of Linux virtualization technologies and incorporate them into the DO fleet.
• Work with cross‑team partners such as product management to unlock new capabilities within our virtualization stack with evolving hardware.
• Backport, build, and deploy software patches in order to support new features, backport bug fixes, and resolve security issues.
• Suggest and implement improvements to our code release pipelines.
• Contribute to a regular on‑call rotation schedule.

• Strong understanding of Linux‑based operating systems.
• Deep experience with the internals of QEMU, KVM, Linux kernel and libvirt. Strong proficiency in
  
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• Strong knowledge of DO’s proprietary services and how they intersect with our virtualization stack.
• Proven track record of solving problems ’ll be involved in driving homogenization across the fleet while making sustainable decisions for the organization moving forward.
• A strong security mindset. You are proactive when it comes to identifying and implementing security best practices in your domain.
• You are a terrific cross‑team collaborator. So much of this role involves interactions with other engineers and teams.

• Experience developing MAAS.
• Experience with Go, Python, and/or Ruby.
• Experience with Chef, AWX, and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience with Nvidia GPU platforms.

• $140,000 - $175,000
• This is a remote role.

• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be part of a cutting‑edge technology company with an upward trajectory.
• We prioritize career development. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your well‑being. We provide a competitive array of benefits, including Employee Assistance Program, local meetups, and flexible time‑off policy.
• We reward our employees. In addition to base salary, you may qualify for bonuses and equity compensation.
• Digital Ocean is an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

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Digital Ocean is an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.