Senior Software Engineer (Virtual Networking) Job in Hyderabad at DigitalOcean (DO), US

DigitalOcean is hiring for the role of Senior Software Engineer (Virtual Networking)!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Designing and building highly efficient scalable services to enable network datapath for the next generation of features such as Virtual Private Cloud,
• Floating IPs and internal tooling for the virtual network stack to scale across hundreds of thousands of customer droplets.
• Work on new architecture initiatives to build systems that enable fleet optimization such as optimizing the virtual networking stack to reduce CAPEX / OPEX.
• Solving problems in network performance while leveraging on concepts of distributed systems to reduce performance bottlenecks, single points of failures and inter-dependencies of our many regions across the globe.
• Solving complex data modeling challenges that have come into existence due to the hyper growth of DigitalOcean such as - our growing inventory of IP addresses, future transition to IPv6 and support for our core network primitives, creating flexible and composable virtual nics and more!
• Diving deep into the ocean of highly available & fault-tolerant virtual networking.
• Debugging/troubleshooting complex production issues across datacenters in real time and enhancing our playbooks and automation to counter their recurrence.
• Participating in a team effort to improve visibility on various network metrics.
• Using technologies and tools such as: Linux, Go, GRPC, Docker, Open vSwitch, eBPF, Prometheus, MySQL, and others!

Requirements:

• Expertise with languages like Go, C, and C++ along with scripting skills. Go is a plus.
• Experience developing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant network software for highly distributed systems.
• Understanding of the OSI network model.
• Hands-on experience working on Linux networking including tools for network I/O performance tuning is a huge plus.
• Bonus: Prior development experience around firewalls, web security, IDP/IPS, eBPF, XDP, and the development of datapath for packet routing and forwarding is a huge plus!
• Ability to self-organize, take ownership, and initiative and clearly communicate intent. Ours is a completely remote team so the ability to communicate effectively in a remote environment is key to being a part of this team and its success.
• Be ready and responsible for taking on complex challenges that come up in a fast-paced environment.