Senior Software Engineer (Cloud 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 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. We're looking for engineers who can strengthen a team responsible for end to end design, implementation, and operations of DigitalOcean's storage systems. We are looking for a staff engineer who will work across the whole stack of our current and future systems. This role reports to the Director of the Storage team. This job can be worked remotely or from our offices in NYC and Cambridge, MA, according to candidate preference.
What You'll Be Doing:

• Programming in Go, Python, and other languages
• Supporting the operations and management of distributed systems
• Collaborating with an agile, self-motivated team of peers
• Consuming from and contributing to free/open source software communities
• Solving interesting problems at cloudscale in a technically rewarding environment
• Leading cross-functional teams to architect and deliver innovative, storage solutions to deliver customer and business value

What We'll Expect From You:

• 12 + years of experience developing, testing, and shipping well-engineered code (Go a plus!)
• 12 + years of experience automating, operating, and troubleshooting production systems
• 5+ years of experience with Linux operating systems and familiarity with storage fundamentals
• Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and service-oriented architectures
• 5+ years of experience leading discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees
• Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming languages
• Experience with gRPC, S3, and distributed storage systems such as Ceph
• 6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating network-distributed storage products in the enterprise or the cloud, experience building distributed block storage products is a plus
• Competency in virtualization storage stacks, such as snapshots and layers.
• 2+ years of experience with Linux virtualization with an emphasis on libvirt and QEMU

Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees . The salary range for this position is based on relevant years of experience and skills. 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. 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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