Senior Network Engineer I
DigitalOcean•Seattle, WA
•$128,000 - $160,000•Hybrid
About The Position
DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Network Engineer passionate about building large-scale networks on the Internet. The engineer will join a team designing, implementing, and maintaining DigitalOcean’s network from the Internet edge to hypervisor connections. The network must scale massively, enable systems agility, and provide a stable platform for customers. The role works with infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure new products and features have scalable network architectures and meet performance needs. It reports to the Manager of Network Infra and is hybrid.
Requirements
- BA/BS in Computer Science or an equivalent degree.
- Knowledge of and demonstrated ability in at least one of Go or Python.
- Expertise with Linux.
- Expertise working with Juniper hardware, such as MX, QFX, EX, and 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.
- Good knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git and familiarity with multi-branch development.
- Experience building and troubleshooting large-scale data center networks.
- Experience building and troubleshooting global backbone networks.
- Experience working with typical Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols, such as BGP, OSPF, VRRP, IS-IS, LACP, and MC-LAG.
- Experience working with MPLS, including BGP-LU.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Salt automation framework.
- Experience with Nokia, Arista, and Ciena.
- RSVP-TE experience.
Responsibilities
- Diagnose complex network issues using packet analysis, flow data, and monitoring tools; perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes to support SLA compliance and high availability.
- Develop scripts and workflows using Python, Golang, and Salt to automate provisioning, configuration changes, and compliance auditing across the network infrastructure.
- Develop scalable network solutions for data center and cloud connectivity using protocols including BGP, ISIS, MPLS, VxLAN, and Segment Routing.
- Support capacity planning and availability by analyzing traffic patterns, forecasting growth, recommending hardware and bandwidth upgrades, and tuning QoS policies and routing to optimize throughput and latency.
- Provide technical guidance to team members, conduct design and architecture reviews, and create network documentation such as topology diagrams, SOPs, and runbooks.
- Research networking solutions, conduct proof-of-concept deployments and testing, recommend technology adoption to leadership, and work with vendors to validate designs and network hardware.
- Plan maintenance windows, draft change requests with rollback procedures, and lead cross-functional communication during upgrades, migrations, and cutovers.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for the mission-critical network, coordinate with CloudOps during outages, conduct post-incident reviews, and drive continuous improvement.
- Develop bills of materials, scopes of work, and deployment procedures for network hardware and software installation in new Points of Presence and data centers.
Benefits
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning courses.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Local Employee Meetups.
- Flexible time off policy.
- Potential bonus based on company and individual performance.
- Equity compensation for eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire.
- Option to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
