Senior Software Engineer (PaaS)

We want people who are passionate about building apps that you and your peers will love.

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.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• 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

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

• 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.

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on relevant years of experience and skills. Employees 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 grants of equity upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging our teams and employees to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs. We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your well-being. In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a competitive array of benefits. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal-opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

*This is remote role 

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