DigitalOcean
Technology
SeniorSoftwareEngineerII(Go,AI)
Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.
“Senior Software Engineer II(Go, AI) at DigitalOcean. Skills: Distributed systems, AI Agents, Control plane, Go. Drive design, development, and delivery. Design and scale core platform”
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Nice to Have
Experience with Go or similar backend languages
What You'll Do.
Design and scale core platform
Manage session lifecycles
Manage complex state synchronization
Manage human in the loop workflows
Manage history management
Integrate with popular agents
Integrate with agentic frameworks
Implement multi-tenant services
Implement API gateways
Implement authentication layers
Isolate customer workloads
Track usage for billing
Maintain sub-20ms overhead
Own developer interface
Optimize control plane surfacing
Surface real-time execution telemetry
Surface structured logging pipelines
Surface token streaming
Work cross-functionally
Align technical roadmaps
Coach junior engineers
Mentor junior engineers
Foster technical excellence
Foster continuous improvement
Maintain critical services
Operate critical services
Utilize observability tools
Ensure platform health
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Product Managers; Customer-facing teams; Other engineering teams
Full Job Description
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 Software Engineer II (IC4) who is passionate about distributed systems orchestration, high-throughput API design, and building the multi-tenant control plane that powers AI Agents. As a Senior Software Engineer II (IC4) at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic engineering team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. In this role, you will report directly to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Agents team. You will act as the technical anchor for the team responsible for the Agents platform that allows our customers to build/migrate, deploy and use their agents efficiently on our cloud, while we take over management of these agents. You will design and develop the "brain" of the product, interfacing directly with customer facing SDK’s/CLI’s/UI/UX and coordinating with underlying internal virtualization services to deliver a seamless, secure, and scalable developer experience. This is a hands-on role, requiring you to be able to develop/mentor high quality software while availing of all the productivity boosts granted by the latest AI coding agents. What You’ll Do Technical Leadership: Act as a technical leader on the team, driving the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of critical control plane and data plane components of a multi-tenant platform that hosts a large number of AI agents. Design and scale the core platform using Go, managing the global state, session lifecycles, agent memory, complex state synchronization, human in the l
Applying for this Senior Software Engineer II(Go, AI) role?
Most applicants get filtered before a human reads their resume. See if yours makes the cut.
ANONYMOUS · UNFILTERED
What do employees actually say about DigitalOcean?
Real rants from real employees. Read before you apply.