
Senior Engineer 2 – Inference Data Plane
DigitalOcean
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Colorado • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $167,200 - $209,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Act as a technical leader on the team, driving the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of critical data plane components
- Architect and refine system design proposals for our high-scale AI inference cloud ecosystem
- Implement and optimize distributed inference hosting using tensor/data parallelism and smart routing
- Work cross-functionally with Product Managers and other teams to align technical roadmaps
- Coach and mentor junior engineers
- Maintain and operate critical services, utilizing observability tools and defining SLOs
Requirements
- Strong experience with microservices, messaging systems, databases, and infrastructure as code
- Hands-on experience hosting large language or multimodal models using inference engines like vLLM, SGLang, or Modular
- Familiarity with distributed inference serving frameworks such as llm-d, NVIDIA Dynamo, or Ray Serve
- Understanding of GPU-level optimization and experience with interconnect technologies like NVlink, XGMI, or RoCE
- Knowledge of common LLM architectures and optimization techniques (e.g., continuous batching, quantization)
- Expert-level proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC
- Proven experience shipping customer-facing software products and running critical services in a high-scale environment
- Experience integrating and building with open-source software
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Professional development resources for conferences and education reimbursement
- Access to LinkedIn Learning courses
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible time off policy
- Local Employee Meetups
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
microservicesmessaging systemsdatabasesinfrastructure as codelarge language modelsinference enginesdistributed inference serving frameworksGPU-level optimizationGoLangPython
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcoachingmentoringcross-functional collaboration