Software Engineer II - Managed Kubernetes products

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Implement features and bug fixes across App Platform and Functions services.
• Contribute to gRPC and HTTP APIs, reconciliation loops, and application lifecycle workflows.
• Work with Kubernetes deployments, networking, autoscaling, and cluster-facing controllers.
• Improve workload scheduling, isolation, observability, and healing.
• Improve Functions runtime performance, isolation, reliability, and operational tooling.
• Participate in on-call rotations, investigate production issues, and write runbooks.
• Write unit and integration tests, participate in code reviews, and improve service reliability.
• Collaborate with App Platform, Functions, Edge, Networking, and adjacent product teams.

Required Qualifications

• Have 2–4 years of software engineering experience building and shipping production services.
• Be proficient in Go or have a strong background in another typed systems language.
• Have working knowledge of Kubernetes concepts, including Deployments, Services, Controllers or Operators, resource limits, and networking basics.
• Understand distributed systems concepts including replication, latency trade-offs, failure modes, and reconciliation.
• Have exposure to containerized environments, microservices, and SQL databases such as MySQL or Postgres.
• Be comfortable investigating production issues and documenting work clearly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on Kubernetes deployment or operations experience is a plus.
• Experience with gRPC is a plus.
• Experience with PaaS, serverless platforms, or multi-tenant control planes is desirable.
• Familiarity with service meshes, CNI networking, autoscaling, or scale-to-zero patterns is desirable.
• Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, Prometheus observability, or production on-call work is desirable.

Workplace

• The job is located in Hyderabad, India.
• The source includes a hybrid work marker.

Employee Benefits

• DigitalOcean highlights career development resources, training and education support, well-being programs, flexible time off, and employee benefits that vary by location.
• Eligible employees may receive bonuses, equity compensation, and access to an employee stock purchase program.