Senior DNS Engineer

Dive in and do the best work of your career rney 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.

As a Senior Software Engineer 1 at Digital Ocean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role will be on the DNS Products team, reporting to the Engineering Manager, where you will write control 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.

• Work as a member of the team on the implementation, testing and optimization of new services and tools that run at scale and solve performance and monitoring problems.
• Work with other teams within Networking 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.
• Help establish best practices for development and architecture and ways to achieve them
• Use technologies and tools such as:
  Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Chef, Git, Jira, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep, Docker, DNS, and Kubernetes

• Experience designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and API
• Experience with leading work across multiple teams to build API contracts
• Experience deploying and operating Linux (Ubuntu) based virtual and bare metal hosts.
• Experience with Go programming language and unit tests
• Some experience designing and developing high performance systems
• Some domain knowledge of DNS and Networking stack or a strong willingness to learn
• Experience with cloud development, containerization and virtualization
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)
• Bonus:
  You have used gRPC to build robust distributed and high-demand systems
• Bonus:
  Working knowledge of Temporal and Kafka
• B.S/M.S in Computer Science or relevant and equivalent experience.

• $139,200 - $174,000
• This is a remote role

JR:

• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
• We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
  
  All employees have access to Linked In Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
• We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of…