We want people who are passionate about building huge scale networks on the Internet.

Digital Ocean is seeking an experienced staff network engineer to join our infrastructure team, which focuses on edge and backbone engineering. You are expected to independently manage large-scale, organization-wide projects at the Staff Network Engineer level, demonstrating deep technical expertise and a broad understanding of organizational impacts. Your role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining our global network infrastructure, ensuring high scalability, system agility, and stability for our diverse customer base.

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Lead and execute initiatives to enhance network processes, products, and services with minimal guidance, demonstrating a clear understanding of the technical and business implications.
• Design scalable network architectures for edge computing and global backbone networks, optimizing for performance, reliability, and security.
• Triage complex issues across multiple technologies, leading incident response, troubleshooting efforts, and detailed technical post-mortems to prevent future incidents.
• Author, run, and improve runbooks, policies, and procedures, driving the adoption of monitoring standards and best practices across the team to mitigate technical debt.
• Collaborate with other infrastructure and engineering teams to develop innovative solutions that meet evolving product and feature requirements while meeting customer performance expectations.

What We Expect From You:

• Experience working on, building, and troubleshooting large-scale datacenter networks
• Experience working on, building, and troubleshooting global backbone networks
• Experience working with Juniper hardware (e.g., MX, QFX, EX, SRX) and the Junos operating system, and Nokia, Arista, and Ciena
• Experience working with typical layer-2 and -3 protocols such (e.g., BGP, OSPF, VRRP, IS-IS ,LACP,MC-LAG)
• 2+ years experience working with MPLS, including BGP-LU (RSVP-TE experience a plus)
• The ability to function independently on routine tasks and project work
• The ability to utilize a variety of communication skills and document concepts with a particular audience in mind
• Strong Linux skills along with experience in Python or any other similar language
• Experience with Salt configuration management
• Understanding of overlay and underlay networking concepts 
• Experience with Ansible configuration management a plus
• Experience with Ethernet/IP 
• Experience with Jira or other ticketing systems
• Expert knowledge of automation tools such as Ansible or SaltStack.
• Familiarity with network monitoring technologies such as SNMP, OpenConfig and Streaming Telemetry.

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions. 
• We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
• We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

*This is role is located in Hyderabad, India

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