Senior Software Engineer II Virtualization

Digital Ocean seeks a Senior Software Engineer II to work on the virtualization stack that powers their Droplet virtual machine product. You will design, develop, and maintain low-level software systems that host every Digital Ocean droplet at extreme scale, collaborating across hardware, kernel, performance, and observability teams.

• Design, develop, test, and implement the IT systems underlying Digital Ocean's core virtual machine (Droplet) product
• Maintain and evolve the low-level virtual machine stack while preparing it to support future software updates and new hardware
• Collaborate with open source Linux, QEMU, and libvirt communities to drive the evolution of Linux virtualization technologies and incorporate them into the Digital Ocean fleet
• Accelerate the virtualization of next-generation GPU-enabled platforms that power AI/ML workloads
• Backport, build, and deploy software patches to support new features, fix bugs, and resolve security issues; contribute to on-call rotation

• Strong understanding of Linux-based operating systems with comfortable development and operation experience on Linux
• Deep experience with the internals of QEMU, KVM, Linux kernel, and libvirt
• Strong proficiency in C
• Proven track record of solving problems at scale
• Strong security mindset and proactive approach to identifying and implementing security best practices; excellent cross-team collaboration skills

• Experience with Debian packaging
• Experience with Go, Python, and/or Ruby
• Experience with Chef, AWX, and/or Kubernetes
• Experience with GPU virtualization and Firecracker microVMs

Salary range $,000 plus potential bonus and equity compensation; competitive benefits including professional development reimbursement, Linked In Learning access, flexible time off, and Employee Stock Purchase Program eligibility