Sr. Software Engineer II (UI Platform)

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 apps that you and your peers will love.
DigitalOcean's UI Platform team is a remote team within the Architecture Unit that owns the core React Micro-Frontend architecture, Apollo GraphQL, and associated tooling for our UI and Full-Stack engineers distributed throughout the organization. We support our engineers by empowering them to be their most efficient in delivering performant and resilient products that delight our users and meet them wherever they are across the globe.
We are looking for a Sr. Software Engineer II, UI Platform who shares our passion for making the complex simple for our customers. This role reports to the Sr. Engineering Manager of the UI Platform team within the Architecture Unit and will be directly responsible for the performance, reliability, scale, and security (PRSS) of GraphQL at DigitalOcean. We'll give you the freedom to do what you do best, so you should feel comfortable owning your work from start to finish, as well as bringing fresh ideas to the table that can make our products, development experience, and team better. You'll have the opportunity to work closely with multiple areas of the company to make ideas a reality and ensure alignment with organizational priorities and strategy. Our current stack consists of React, TypeScript, and GraphQL, though we also continue to support our legacy monolith Ember application.
What You'll Be Doing:

• Informing, leading, and executing on our efforts to fulfill our long-term UI Platform technical vision through the continuous improvement of our core architecture and associated developer productivity tooling
• As an expert in building and documenting GraphQL APIs, you will be responsible for providing governance, standardization, and change management for GraphQL to our engineers throughout DigitalOcean
• Engaging with the larger engineering community at DigitalOcean to identify gaps and craft impactful improvements that meet the needs of the business
• Building telemetry that further enables our data-driven capabilities to visualize, orient, prioritize, and deliver on our priorities and unlock opportunities for product teams while proactively identifying and mitigating potential failure modes
• Nurturing a culture of, and writing, Design Docs and RFCs that drive awareness and incorporate the voice of our internal and external customers and their jobs to be done in our roadmaps and proposals
• Collaborating with Architecture, SRE, Security, and other teams within DigitalOcean to surface and solve highly complex problems with broad impact, ensuring technical and strategic alignment
• Working with leadership to establish multi-quarter roadmaps for our foundational initiatives and informing periodic adjustments to our long-term vision as necessary
• Mentoring and supporting our engineers across our organization to help them-and you-grow

What You'll Add To DigitalOcean:

• Prior, recent experience working within a core/platform team responsible for driving and delivering internal products and direction leveraged by multiple teams
• Dedication to and leadership by example in designing, developing, testing, and shipping well-engineered solutions at scale
• Significant, demonstrated experience working with GraphQL and Apollo (Server and Client)
• Expert knowledge of TypeScript; demonstrated experience in Go is a major plus
• Experience with CI/CD, synthetic and smoke testing, and alerting
• Experience building CLI-based tooling for engineers
• Clear communication through effective documentation, presentations, and asynchronous channels in a remote environment
• A natural curiosity in what lies beyond the existing status quo to improve how we operate and deliver for our internal and external customers, and the products we build to empower their success

Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees . The base salary range for this position is between $120,000-$140,000 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, 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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