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Principal Software Engineer

DigitalOcean

$206,400 - $258,000
Jul 31, 2025
Seattle, WA, USA
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DigitalOcean is looking to revolutionize cloud computing by building the simplest scalable cloud, specifically focusing on their Bare Metal GPU product. The company aims to provide security and operational best practices, enhance self-service capabilities for customers through reliable API access, and improve the overall product experience by identifying and resolving hardware and software performance regressions.

Requirements

  • Proven ability to orchestrate bare metal linux systems at scale including building automation for firmware updates, bios config management, configuring PXE environments.
  • Deep Linux systems experience including low level troubleshooting, developing and applying configuration management, security best practices and monitoring and alerting.
  • Strong automation mindset. Expert knowledge in 1 or more orchestration tools such as MaaS, Salt, Chef, Ansible or Puppet.
  • Hands-on experience in High Performance Computing (HPC) clustered environments from Nvidia or AMD.
  • Experience in performing automated wide scale testing on NCCL or other frameworks.
  • Network engineering experience with VyOS platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to a rapidly growing Bare Metal GPU product within DO by providing security and operational best practices to a fleet of infrastructure servers across multiple regions.
  • Help design and implement further self-service capabilities for our customers by providing reliable and predictable API capabilities for upstack service teams.
  • Engage in support escalations when necessary. Capture trends and lead internal projects to improve the overall product experience.
  • Continuously test our hardware platforms to identify performance regressions related to firmware, software or hardware issues.

Other

  • Strong communication skills. Your job will involve writing detailed documentation for others to pick up or leading knowledge sharing sessions with operations teams.
  • This is a remote role