Senior Software Engineer II Virtualization
About The Position
On this team at DigitalOcean, 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 DigitalOcean'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 DigitalOcean droplet, we develop and operate software at an extreme scale.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of Linux based operating systems; comfortable developing and operating software on Linux.
- Strong proficiency in C.
- 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
- 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
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 DigitalOcean'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 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.
Benefits
- competitive array of benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Local Employee Meetups
- flexible time off policy
- reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
- LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
- bonus in addition to base salary
- equity compensation
- equity grants upon hire
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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