Senior Software Engineer (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 Engineering group is a globally distributed product group that builds and operates the cloud-scale distributed storage systems 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 Storage team supports the operations and development of business logic, middleware, edge, and API solutions of our block and object storage products.  We are seeking an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future storage platforms at scale.

The selected candidate will have the opportunity to make impactful contributions to key software, innovate processes and tooling, and debug interesting problems at cloudscale. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Participating in engineering efforts to design and deliver innovative storage products
• Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
• Programming in Go with gRPC
• 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:

• 2+ years of experience designing, building, and operating distributed software products in the enterprise or the cloud
• 1+ years of experience programming in Golang with gRPC in a professional environment
• 1+ years of experience breaking down technical designs and/or product requirements into an organized and prioritized set of tasks (eg, epics)
• 1+ years of experience designing and implementing stateful, automated service orchestration for fleets of multiple nodes using tools such as Kubernetes/Helm, Ansible, and/or Chef
• 1+ years of experience designing and implementing automated unit, functional, and integration tests in a continuous integration environment with automated test execution

• 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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