Senior Infrastructure Fleet Storage Engineer

We want people who are passionate about building features that developers and businesses love!

DigitalOcean’s Infrastructure Fleet Storage Team is responsible for the design, performance, durability, and efficiency of Digital Ocean’s persistent data stores. This role reports to the Infra Fleet Storage team Engineering Manager.

Our Stack: C/C++, Linux, Python, Go, libvirt, KVM, QEMU, CEPH

Our Tools: AWX, Chef, Elasticsearch, Git, Github Actions, GSuite, Jira, Nomad, Slack, Victoria Metrics

Our Team: The person filling this position will report to the Sr. Manager of Storage (Infra::Fleet). Infra::Fleet is currently composed of 7 teams and is made up of 60 diverse engineers located across the US, Canada, and Europe.  

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Leveraging your 7+ years minimum, of job related experience towards the research, architecture, design, and development of class leading disaggregated block storage for Digital Ocean’s compute products.  
• Help design and lead a multi-year technical roadmap balancing short and long-term investments.  
• Collaborate with a motivated team of peers through key technical decision making. Author and review technical designs. 
• 5-20% of your time contributing to free/open source software communities.  
• Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding fast paced environment.

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Your background and experience in distributed storage systems, especially in large scale SaaS or IaaS environments.  
• Your exceptional collaboration and communication skills working in tandem with orchestration, compute, and product teams to deliver a solution our customers are thrilled about.  
• Provide guidance on continuously improving our storage services using real world usage data.  
• A product mindset that balances an exceptional customer storage experience with sustainable technology in the back end.  
• Sharing responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of existing storage products. Suggest and implement ways to improve our operability and scale. Previous Ceph or other open source storage system experience is a bonus.  

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees. The base salary range for this position is between $160,000-$215,000 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, flexible 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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