Senior Software Engineer II - AI/ML

<div class="content-intro"><p>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. </p></div><p data-pm-slice="1 3 []">We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone. </p> <p>The AI/ML team is responsible for building an AI platform to manage OSS and custom models across modalities (LLMs, images, audios, videos) on top of a high-performance inference engine, to ensure the latest SOTA models are always available at peak performance. We’re a fast-paced team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Be Doing:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team</li> <li>Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion</li> <li>Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale model services such as inference, fine-tuning, model benchmarks and evaluations</li> <li>Maintain and develop APIs and SDKs</li> <li>Collaborate on design and UX</li> <li>Build and scale products to achieve operational excellence</li> <li>Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy</li> <li>Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:</strong></h2> <ul> <li><em>Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team</em></li> <li><em>Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, language modeling, computer vision)</em></li> <li><em>Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs</em></li> <li><em>8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems</em></li> <li><em>Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teams</em></li> <li><em>Knowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or Go</em></li> </ul> <h2><strong>Compensation Range: </strong></h2> <ul> <li>$167,200 - $209,000</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">*This is a remote role</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">JR: 2026-7446</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">#LI-Remote</span></em></span></p> <p class="p1">#LI-SK1</p><div class="content-conclusion"><h2 class="p-rich_text_section"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean</strong></h2> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">We innovate with purpose. </strong>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.</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">We prioritize career development.</strong> At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. Yo ... (truncated, view full listing at source)