DigitalOcean is looking to hire a Software Engineer to help define the next generation of cloud services and create flexible and powerful solutions that support their growing customer base. The goal is to make developers' lives easier by building new systems and improving the efficiency and performance of existing systems.
Requirements
- 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 working within a microservice architecture, with knowledge of both asynchronous, event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
Other
- 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.
- We want people who are passionate about building apps that you and your peers will love.
- Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
- 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.
- This is a remote role
