Join DigitalOcean's AI Inference Data Plane team as a Senior Software Engineer I and be a key technical leader in designing, developing, and delivering high-scale, resilient data plane services. Work at the intersection of distributed systems and specialized AI hardware to ensure industry-leading performance and reliability. This role involves technical leadership, system design, performance optimization, collaboration, mentorship, and operational excellence.

Company: DigitalOcean

Role: Senior Software Engineer I - AI Inference Data Plane

Location: Bengaluru

Experience:

Distributed Systems Expertise: Strong experience with microservices, messaging systems, databases, and infrastructure as code
AI/ML Domain Knowledge: Hands-on experience hosting large language or multimodal models using inference engines
Inference Frameworks: Familiarity with distributed inference serving frameworks
Hardware & Interconnects: Understanding of GPU-level optimization and experience with interconnect technologies
Architecture Proficiency: Knowledge of common LLM architectures and optimization techniques
Software Engineering: Expert-level proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC
Cloud Operations: Proven experience shipping customer-facing software products and running critical services in a high-scale environment

Role Focus: • Technical Leadership: Act as a technical leader on the team, driving the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of critical data plane components hosting large generative AI models • System Design: Architect and refine system design proposals for our high-scale, multi-tenant AI inference cloud ecosystem • Performance Optimization: Implement and optimize distributed inference hosting using techniques like tensor/data parallelism, KV cache optimizations, and smart routing • Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with Product Managers, customer-facing teams, and other engineering teams to align technical roadmaps with customer needs • Mentorship: Coach and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement • Operational Excellence: Maintain and operate critical, high-scale services, utilizing observability tools and defining SLOs to ensure superior platform health

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distributed inference serving frameworks, NVIDIA Dynamo, Ray Serve, GPU-level optimization, interconnect technologies like NVlink, XGMI, or RoCE, common LLM architectures, optimization techniques, Modular

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We innovate with purpose. 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
We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry
We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy
We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills
DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service

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