Senior Network 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.

We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer who is passionate about building large scale networks on the Internet.

As a Senior Network Engineer at Digital Ocean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. Reporting to the Manager of Network Infra, the Senior Network Engineer will be part of a team that is designing, implementing and maintaining the Digital Ocean network from the Internet edge to the hypervisor connections. 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.

What You'll Do:

* Diagnose complex network issues using packet analysis, flow data, and monitoring tools. Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes to maintain organizational SLA compliance and high availability.

* Develop scripts and workflows using Python, Golang and Salt to automate provisioning, configuration changes, and compliance auditing across the Digital Ocean network infrastructure.

* Develop scalable network solutions for data center and cloud connectivity using protocols such as BGP, ISIS, MPLS, VxLAN, and SR (Segment Routing) across the network environment.

* Help in capacity planning and availability by analyzing traffic patterns, forecast growth and recommend hardware/bandwidth upgrades, implement and fine tune QoS policies and routing to optimize throughput and latency to ensure our customers have the best experience.

* Provide technical guidance to team members, conduct design and architecture reviews, and create network documentation including topology diagrams, Standard Operating Procedures and runbooks.

* Research emerging networking solutions, conduct proof-of-concept deployments and testing, and make recommendations to leadership on technology adoption; work with vendors to help validate designs and network hardware.

* Plan maintenance windows, draft change requests with rollback procedures, and lead cross-functional communication during upgrades, migrations and cutovers.

* Serve as a Senior escalation point for the mission critical network. Coordinate with the Cloud Ops during outages and conduct post-incident reviews and drive continuous improvement.

* Develop comprehensive documentation, including bills of materials, scopes of work, and deployment procedures for the network hardware and software installation in new Points of Presence (POPs) and Data Centers (DCs).

What You'll Add to Digital Ocean:

* BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree

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

* Expertise with Linux

* Expertise working with Juniper hardware (e.g., MX, QFX, EX, SRX) and the Junos operating system

* Experience with CI/CD, containers and/or virtualization, web servers, and databases

* Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack

* Experience with automation frameworks (Salt preferred)

* Good knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git, and accustomed to multi-branches development

* Experience working on, building, and troubleshooting large-scale datacenter networks

* Experience working on, building, and troubleshooting global backbone networks

* Experience working with Nokia, Arista, and Ciena

* Experience working with typical layer-2 and
-3 protocols such (e.g., BGP, OSPF, VRRP, IS-IS ,LACP,MC-LAG)

* Experience working with MPLS, including BGP-LU (RSVP-TE experience a plus)

Compensation Range:

* $154,000 - $193,000

* This is a hybrid role

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Why You'll Like Working for Digital Ocean

* 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…