Senior Engineer II, Serverless Inference

DigitalOcean

$167K — $209K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience with multi-tenant platforms and distributed systems
  • Strong background in high-scale distributed services operation
  • Expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
  • 1+ year of hands-on experience with Go/Golang
  • 2+ years of experience working with Kubernetes
  • Solid grasp of cloud-native architectures and microservices
  • Proven ability to debug performance and reliability issues in production

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable multi-tenant AI inference services
  • Enhance platform resiliency through better observability and automation
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable APIs
  • Uplift engineering practices through software design and incident management
  • Inform architectural decisions on service reliability and scalability
  • Participate in on-call rotations to improve service health
  • Provide mentorship to junior engineers and foster a learning culture

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment
  • Opportunities for professional growth and mentorship
  • Collaborative team culture focused on ownership and accountability
  • Involvement in cutting-edge AI and infrastructure technologies
Full Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Engineer II to implement and contribute to the design and optimization of our Serverless Inference infrastructure and APIs. In this role, you will tackle the challenges of large-scale AI workloads, focusing on throughput, GPU utilization, and fault tolerance to support next-generation inference needs of AI native enterprises.
What You'll Do:
  • Design and build scalable, multi-tenant services that power AI inference and intelligent routing workloads.
  • Strengthen platform resiliency through improved observability, capacity management, automation, and operational tooling.
  • Partner closely with platform, GPU infrastructure, and product engineering teams to deliver production-grade systems and highly available APIs.
  • Raise the engineering bar through strong software design, operational discipline, incident management, and continuous improvement practices.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions around traffic management, service orchestration, reliability, and platform scalability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead efforts to reduce operator pain, improve service health, and prevent recurring incidents.
  • Provide technical leadership on projects by breaking down ambiguous problems and guiding engineers toward clear execution plans.
  • Support the growth of junior and mid-level engineers through coaching, pairing, and constructive feedback.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning across the team.
  • Lead by example in incident response, operational readiness, and production-quality engineering practices.
What You'll Bring:

Required
  • 7+ years of experience building and operating multi-tenant platforms or distributed backend systems
  • Strong experience operating high-scale distributed services in production environments
  • Deep understanding of SRE principles, including observability, incident management, reliability engineering, capacity planning, and operational automation
  • 1+ years of hands-on experience with Go / Golang in production systems
  • 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distributed systems fundamentals
  • Experience debugging performance, scalability, and reliability issues in production systems
  • Observability Proficiency: Experience tracking infrastructure and inference metrics like Time To First Token (TTFT), Time Per Output Token (TPOT), and GPU utilization.

Bonus
  • AI/ML Framework Knowledge: Understanding of modern LLM serving architectures and familiarity with engines like vLLM or Triton.
  • Experience with API gateways, traffic routing, or service mesh technologies
  • Familiarity with LLM serving stacks such as vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or similar technologies
  • Experience building systems for inference optimization, rate limiting, routing, or workload orchestration
Compensation Range:
  • $167,000 - $209,000

*This is a hybrid role



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