Senior Network Engineer

About the role

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 large 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 Infra, the Senior 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:

- Diagnose complex network issues using packet analysis, flow data, and monitoring tools. Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes to maintain organizational SLA compliance and high availability.

- Develop scripts and workflows using Python, Golang and Salt to automate provisioning, configuration changes, and compliance auditing across the DigitalOcean network infrastructure.

- Develop scalable network solutions for data center and cloud connectivity using protocols such as BGP, ISIS, MPLS, VxLAN, and SR (Segment Routing) across the network environment.

- Help in capacity planning and availability by analyzing traffic patterns, forecast growth and recommend hardware/bandwidth upgrades, implement and fine tune QoS policies and routing to optimize throughput and latency to ensure our customers have the best experience.

- Provide technical guidance to team members, conduct design and architecture reviews, and create network documentation including topology diagrams, Standard Operating Procedures and runbooks.

- Research emerging networking solutions, conduct proof-of-concept deployments and testing, and make recommendations to leadership on technology adoption; work with vendors to help 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 the CloudOps during outages and conduct post-incident reviews and drive continuous improvement.

- Develop comprehensive documentation, including bills of materials, scopes of work, and deployment procedures for the network hardware and software installation in new Points of Presence (POPs) and Data Centers (DCs).