Senior Software Engineer II, Virtualization

Senior Software Engineer II Virtualization

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.

On this team at Digital Ocean, you will contribute to the foundation of our core compute cloud: the virtualization stack. The team's mission is to provide an extremely reliable, secure, and feature-complete low-level software stack for Digital Ocean's virtualization product offerings. The team works broadly across the company with our hardware, kernel, performance, observability, GPU/AI, and up-stack service teams to provide a platform to meet our stakeholders' requirements.

Because we are responsible for the software which hosts every Digital Ocean droplet, we develop and operate software at an extreme scale.

• 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 in order to allow Digital Ocean 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 new hardware. 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; comfortable developing and operating software on Linux.
• Strong proficiency in
  
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• 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.

• Deep experience with the internals of QEMU, KVM, Linux kernel and libvirt.
• Experience with Debian packaging
• Experience with Go, Python, and/or Ruby
• Experience with Chef, AWX, and/or Kubernetes
• Experience with GPU virtualization
• Experience with Firecracker microVMs

• $167,000 - $209,000

* This is a hybrid role

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