Senior Engineer II (Fleet Virtualization)
About The Position
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. This role is within the fleet virtualization team. The team’s mission is to provide an abstraction layer between underlying hardware and the operating system to provide security, flexibility and efficiency gains which are critical to cloud providers.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of Linux based operating systems
- Deep experience with the internals of QEMU, KVM, Linux kernel and libvirt.
- Strong proficiency in C.
- Strong knowledge of DO’s proprietary services and how they intersect with our virtualization stack.
- Proven track record of solving problems at scale. You’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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing MAAS.
- Experience with Go, Python, and/or Ruby
- Experience with Chef, AWX, and/or Kubernetes
- Experience with Nvidia GPU platforms
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and implement the IT systems underlying DigitalOcean's core virtual machine ("Droplet") product.
- Work with DigitalOcean's Observability teams to collect and analyze metrics regarding DigitalOcean's products and infrastructure; utilize this data to improve DigitialOcean's products and services.
- Engage in peer reviews for suggested changes to DigitalOcean systems.
- Contribute to retrospectives enabling DigitalOcean to continuously improve software engineering processes in an agile manner.
- Develop and lead execution of test plans in order to allow DigitalOcean to continue to provide reliable service to customers and ensure any customer-impacting incidents will not be repeated.
- Maintain DigitalOcean'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 GPU fabric performance.
- 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
Benefits
- We innovate with purpose.
- We prioritize career development.
- We care about your well-being.
- We reward our employees.
- We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
