Software Engineer I - Agentic AI

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.

About the Role

DigitalOcean's Agentic AI organization provides a powerful inference cloud, Managed Agents, and robust Feedback systems that enable customers to run AI inference confidently at scale. We are looking for a Software Engineer I (IC1) to join our Feedback Systems team. This team is responsible for building the scalable backend infrastructure that tests and evaluates AI agents safely and reliably.

In this role, you will help develop and maintain high-throughput backend systems that orchestrate complex execution workflows, interface with isolated execution environments, and process evaluation signals. You will work on solving distributed systems problems at the intersection of infrastructure orchestration and asynchronous data flows, ensuring our platforms are robust, scalable, and highly available.

What You'll Do:

• Building, testing, and maintaining robust backend services and highly concurrent asynchronous workflows, primarily in Python and Go.

• Integrating backend control planes with isolated, secure execution environments to safely run agents and capture execution artifacts.

• Developing and maintaining scalable APIs (gRPC, REST) to serve as the connective tissue across data pipelines, evaluation engines, and internal platforms.

• Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to ensure infrastructure reliably supports evaluation scenarios and outcome metrics.

• Contributing to engineering best practices, including participating in code reviews, writing comprehensive tests, and helping with technical design documentation.

• Monitoring system performance, investigating bugs, and ensuring high reliability of orchestration systems.

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

• 1+ years of software engineering experience building concurrent, fault-tolerant distributed systems.

• Proficiency in Python and Go (or strong experience in C++/Java with a willingness to master Go and Python quickly).

• Familiarity or practical experience with workflow orchestration engines for managing distributed state and asynchronous tasks.

• Working knowledge of containerization, virtualization, or workload isolation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, or microVMs).

• Experience building and consuming resilient APIs and handling event or message data.

• A strong sense of ownership, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a globally distributed team.

• AI/ML Ecosystem Awareness: While you do not need to be an ML researcher, you possess a strong foundational understanding of or interest in interacting with LLM APIs, prompt constraints, and the architectural challenges of testing non-deterministic systems.

This is a hybrid role based out of Hyderabad, India.

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Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean

• 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. 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.

• 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 are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.

• 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, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.

• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You 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 equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

• 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.

Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.