Senior Performance Engineer

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 designing and operating secure, performant systems at scale.
We are looking for an empathetic engineer who is familiar with some (not all) of our stack and tools, has a willingness and aptitude to grow into the role, is comfortable working remotely, and is excited by the idea of contributing to open source projects and our mission to create simple, yet powerful, foundations from which our community can build. Reporting to the Engineering Manager of Systems Kernel and Performance, the Senior Software Engineer will contribute to delivering on this mission by ensuring DigitalOcean's operating system and virtualization stack is highly performant and competitive across the variety of DigitalOcean product offerings.
Our Stack: C, Go, Linux, Docker, K8s, libvirt, KVM, QEMU, Python, Ruby, Chef
Our Tools: Concourse, Elasticsearch, GSuite, Jira, Prometheus, Slack
Our Team: The larger team, supported by the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering, is currently made up of a growing, diverse group of about thirty engineers located across the US, Canada, and Germany. You would be an individual contributor on the Performance Engineering sub-team (working closely with the Infrastructure Engineering Kernel Engineering Team), supported by the Engineering Manager of Systems Kernel and Performance.
What You'll Be Doing:
While work will vary based on quarterly priorities and initiatives, some examples include:

• Development of telemetry for fleet performance analysis
• Developing and maintaining realistic benchmark applications that emulate our customers' environments
• Strategizing performance characteristics and parameters for new and future product offerings
• Triaging and fixing operating system issues impacting the performance of product offerings
• Performance analysis of OS stack and fleet hardware updates
• Tight collaboration with the Kernel and Virtualization sub-teams for producing Service Level Agreements for customers based on Performance
• Consultation for product performance regressions and new product performance acceptance criteria
• Visualizing and presenting performance data to be leveraged for technology and business decisions
• 5-20% of your time is spent on innovation, education, and/or open source

What We'll Expect From You:

• Professional experience in performance engineering, with insights into collecting, tracing, measuring, analyzing, tuning, and/or modeling
• Familiarity with data analytics
• A track record of improving systems performance
• Technical leadership experience (preferably in the Linux / open source space)
• Experience as a developer / engineer in a large scale, distributed environment
• Experience writing secure, testable and robust code
• Deep understanding of Linux and OS internals
• Experience proactively diagnosing performance issues across all layers of the stack
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Machine learning experience is a huge plus

Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean :

• We reward our employees . The base salary range for this position is between $140,000.00 - $200,000.00 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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