Engineer II (Storage)

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?
DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.
We want people who are passionate about building features that developers and businesses love!
DigitalOcean's Storage Team is a remote team that builds and operates cloud-scale distributed storage powering internal and customer-facing services and products. We're creating flexible and powerful solutions that our customers will leverage to ship their software as quickly, easily, and safely as possible.
The Droplet Storage Team supports the operations and development of block volumes, backups and image management. We are looking for an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future storage platforms at scale. The ultimate goal of the Droplet Storage Team is to create a cohesive singular interface to hypervisor storage where storage class placement decisions are transparent to the hypervisor client and take advantage of the full range of available block storage classes to best satisfy customer needs.
The selected candidate will have the opportunity to make impactful contributions to key software, contribute to the open source community, and debug interesting problems at cloudscale. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Droplet Storage team and is currently only available remotely.
What You'll Be Doing:

• Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions
• Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
• Programming in Go and other languages
• Collaborating with a motivated team of peers
• Consuming from and contributing to free/open source software communities
• Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding environment

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Cultivating your skills, learning languages, and teaming up with an agile, self-motivated group of peers to design, develop, test and deploy software in modern tools and languages such as Go.
• Sharing responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of storage products
• Collaborating with and contributing to free and open source software communities
• Solving interesting problems of complexity and scale in a technically rewarding environment
• Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming language
• Bonus: Experience with gRPC, distributed data stores like Ceph, and storage hardware

Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees . The base salary range for this position is between $98,000-$147,000 based on relevant years of experience and skills. The salary range for this role is specific to candidates located within the U.S. and will vary for candidates outside the U.S.. 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. In the United States, these include health insurance, unlimited vacation, retirement benefits, a generous parental leave program, and additional resources to support employees' overall well-being. 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 a remote role
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