Compensation Overview

Are you passionate about Virtualization and Linux?

As a software engineer on the Paperspace Infrastructure team, the software you write will run on thousands of hypervisors across our global infrastructure network. You will define the next generation of cloud services to support AI/ML and GPU accelerator applications, making developers’ lives (both inside DO and in the ’wild’) easier by building new services to power the hypervisor. This is a unique opportunity to deliver the best hosted infrastructure experience in the industry to millions of developers around the world.

If you are passionate about enabling AI applications, Distributed Systems, Linux, and Virtualization this is the right job for you.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Building the services that build and manage Paperspace GPU-enabled virtual machines
• Working on virtualization at many different levels, from the API and orchestration layers to the hypervisor.
• Building virtualization infrastructure for GPU-compute based applications, and GPU-to-GPU communication.
• Building tools and automation that operate at scale.
• Optimizing systems for performance, flexibility, and maintainability

What We’ll Expect From You: 

• 9+ years of software development experience with Distributed Systems and Virtualization
• Deep understanding and knowledge of Distributed Systems
• Deep understanding and knowledge of virtualization (such as libvirt, KVM, Xenserver, VSphere, QEMU)
• Significant experience as a software engineer, developer, or programmer building software used by 100s, if not 1000s of users
• Expertise with at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, C/C++, or Rust
• Expertise with concurrency, microservices architecture, and api development.
• Experience with any configuration management systems (Chef, Ansible, Salt and/or Puppet) is a plus but not required.
• Deep understanding of Linux administration and internals
• Strong opinions, weakly held

Technologies we use: 

• Go, Python, Xen, Libvirt, Virtio, KVM, Open vSwitch, Kubernetes, gRPC, PSQL, JS, Ansible, Salt, Git

Why you’ll like working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is between $145,000.00 - $200,000.00 based on relevant years of experience and skills. Employees 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 grants of equity upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging our teams and employees to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs. We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your well-being. In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a competitive array of benefits. In the United States, these include health insurance, flexible vacation, retirement benefits, a generous parental leave program, and additional resources to support employees’ overall well-being. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
  
  

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