Senior Software Engineer (Kubernetes)

We want people who are passionate about helping developers build, deploy, and bring their idea to life.

DigitalOcean’s product engineering organization enables customers to easily build highly scalable creative applications and services on our cloud platform.  We serve a passionate developer community that has grown to love our intuitive simple design, easily configurable infrastructure, and intuitive tutorials helping craft and run their software in the cloud.

As an engineer on the DigitalOcean Kubernetes team, you will be responsible for continuing to build the DigitalOcean Kubernetes product. You’ll be a member of a global team building a Kubernetes platform to enable developers to easily deploy and orchestrate their containerized workloads.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Developing the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
• Collaborating to build intuitive, delightful experiences for developers as they engage with DigitalOcean.
• Developing back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
• Designing back-end services and authoring engineering design documents.
• Breaking the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
• Providing technical leadership to project teams executing on timely delivery of features.
• Running experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
• Contributing to open-source projects, and collaborating with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
• Finding emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and showing your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.
• Ability to navigate the complexity of distributed systems to operate them in production.
• Experience contributing meaningfully to discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
• Experience working within a microservice architecture, with knowledge of both asynchronous, event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests.
• Experience working on teams that operate across multiple time zones.

What We’ll Expect From You:

• Exemplify DigitalOcean values.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Go, and containers.
• Experience with API development and interactions with data stores such as MySQL.
• Experience with custom Kubernetes controllers and CRDs
• Network engineering experience, preferable
• Passion for shipping well-engineered and tested code.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
• A strong interest and obsession with building quality software focused on enabling developers to iterate on their ideas.
• A self learner mentality
• Genuine interest in DigitalOcean as a company and excitement to use our products in your projects (if you haven’t already!)

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is between $140,000.00 - $190,000.00 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. 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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