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Senior Network Engineer

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Hybrid
Austin, TX
100K-125K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
Austin, TX
100K-125K Annually
Senior level
The Senior Network Engineer will design, implement, and maintain scalable networks, ensure robust performance, and collaborate with development teams for network automation and monitoring.
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Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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 huge scale networks on the Internet. 

As a Senior Network Engineer at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. Reporting to the Manager of Network Engineering, the Network Engineer will be part of a team that is designing, implementing and maintaining the DigitalOcean 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:
  • Providing hands-on technical design and engineering for network-related tools and systems
  • Working with networking-focused software engineers to develop/maintain our network automation and monitoring platform.SDN solution and integration
  • Developing and contributing to open source projects relating to network and platform engineering
  • Helping to maintain good code quality by providing guidance during code reviews
  • Developing and maintaining network automation solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
  • 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: 
  • $114,200 - $156,970

*This is a remote role

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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
  • 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 LinkedIn 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 benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
  • We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Top Skills

Bgp
Ci/Cd
Containers
Databases
Elk Stack
Git
Go
Grafana
Is-Is
Juniper Hardware
Lacp
Linux
Mc-Lag
Mpls
Ospf
Prometheus
Python
Salt
Virtualization
Vrrp
Web Servers
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