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Principal Engineer - PaaS Team

DigitalOcean

$206,400 - $309,600
Aug 14, 2025
Austin, TX, USA
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Building the simplest scalable cloud and delivering the best hosted infrastructure experience in the industry to millions of developers around the world

Requirements

  • 11+ years of software development experience
  • Significant experience as a software engineer, developer, or programmer building software used by 1000s of users
  • Expertise with at least one of the following languages: Go, Perl, Ruby, Python, C/C++, Java
  • Experience with large scale distributed systems programming
  • Experience with at least one configuration management system like Chef, Ansible and/or Puppet
  • Deep understanding and knowledge of virtualization (such as libvirt, KVM, QEMU, Namespaces and Containers)
  • Hands-on working knowledge of technologies such as Kubernetes and Containers is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Drive architecture for complex products by determining current limitations and coming up with solutions
  • Design and architect large scale systems
  • Ship multiple large services and major pieces of infrastructure
  • Sets short to medium-term strategic technical direction, able to look ahead 6-12 months and identify the areas of greatest need and create plans to improve them
  • Multiply the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team work
  • Mentor and coach less experienced members of the Engineering org

Other

  • Passion for mentoring and coaching other members on your team
  • Record of creating sweeping improvements in stability, performance and scalability across major business-critical systems
  • This is a remote role
  • Flexible time off policy
  • Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups