SeniorEngineer,InferenceControlPlane

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 seeking a Senior Engineer to implement and contribute to the design and optimization of our Serverless Inference infrastructure and APIs. In this role, you will tackle the challenges of large-scale AI workloads, focusing on throughput, GPU utilization, and fault tolerance to support next-generation inference needs of AI native enterprises. What You'll Do: Design and build scalable, multi-tenant services that power AI inference and intelligent routing workloads. Develop and operate high-scale distributed systems with strong reliability, availability, and performance goals. Strengthen platform resiliency through improved observability, capacity management, automation, and operational tooling. Partner closely with platform, GPU infrastructure, and product engineering teams to deliver production-grade systems and highly available APIs. Raise the engineering bar through strong software design, operational discipline, incident management, and continuous improvement practices. Contribute to architecture decisions around traffic management, service orchestration, reliability, and platform scalability. Participate in on-call rotations and lead efforts to reduce operator pain, improve service health, and prevent recurring incidents. What You'll Bring: Required 5+ years of experience building and operating multi-tenant platforms or distributed backend systems Strong experience operating high-scale distributed services in production environments Deep understanding of SRE principles, includi