Senior Engineer II, Fleet Efficiency

Role Description

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join the Fleet Efficiency team. In this role, you will contribute to the design, development, and operation of the backend systems that support DigitalOcean’s core products. You will work closely with distributed systems, systems engineering, performance tuning, and observability to ensure our platform meets enterprise-grade reliability and usability.

• Spearhead the development of our distributed scheduling and optimization services
• Develop robust scripts, tools, and automation solutions to streamline virtualization processes, enhance system performance, and boost operational efficiency
• Collaborate closely with a cross-functional, motivated team of three engineers located in the US and Canada
• Utilize Golang, Linux, Kubernetes, bash, LibVirt, KVM, Python, MySQL
• Solve interesting and complex problems in a technically rewarding environment

Qualifications

• Proven track record: 5+ years of experience developing, deploying, and managing distributed systems
• Familiarity with concurrency and parallelism models in a modern programming language
• Bonus: experience with gRPC, LibVirt, Kubernetes

Requirements

• Cultivate your skills, learn languages, and team up with an agile, self-motivated group of peers to design, develop, test and deploy software in modern tools and languages such as Go
• Share responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of core compute products
• Solve interesting problems of complexity and scale in a technically rewarding environment

Benefits

• Competitive array of benefits to support employee well-being
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
• Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses for continued growth and development
• Equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program