Senior Software Engineer (PaaS Insights)

As a Software Engineer at DigitalOcean, the software you write will power applications for over a million users around the globe. You will help define the next generation of cloud services and create flexible and powerful solutions that our customers will leverage to support our growing customer base. Your solutions will make developers’ lives (both inside DO and in the ‘wild’) easier by building new systems and improving the efficiency and performance of existing systems.

If your passion is building products and systems customers rely on every day, DigitalOcean is the right place for you.

• Develop software for our Platform as a Service (PaaS) teams which includes Database as a Service (DBaaS) and Insights, Serverless, or Kubernetes.
• Engineer solutions to meet our customers’ business problems.
• Create scalable services that are performant and highly reliable.
• Take part in an on-call rotation.
• Operate our current solutions at scale.
• Maintain and operate our products.
• Technologies we use: Kubernetes, Go, gRPC, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Ember/React, and others

• Language: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, ship, maintain, and operate production-ready code and systems. (Go experience is a requirement, 3 years + is desired).
• Experience in one or more of the following services is highly desirable:
  • Distributed Databases like Mongo, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
  • Fully managed infrastructure solutions 
  • Serverless components
  • Kubernetes
  • Containers and Container Registries
• Ability to navigate the complexity of distributed systems to operate them in production.
• Experience contributing meaningfully to discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
• Experience working within a microservice architecture, with knowledge of both asynchronous, event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests.
• Comfortable with rapid execution, learning from failure, and building scale and reliability.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams on small to medium sized projects (3 - 6 months in duration)
• Experience working on teams that operate across multiple time zones.

• 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 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 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 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.
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. 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.

*This is remote role 

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