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Senior Engineer I

DigitalOcean
Denver, CO Full Time
POSTED ON 2/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/25/2025

We want people who are passionate about building features that you and your peers will love

DigitalOcean's Managed Databases Team builds and runs the services and infrastructure for the DigitalOcean DBaaS product. We handle the full life cycle of Managed Databases from the APIs which let users create and manage their databases to software that automates the running, upgrading, and health of databases.

We are looking for an experienced engineer to work on a small team focused on Database-as-a-Service products. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Datastores and Messaging team within the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) organization in Engineering.

What You'll Be Doing :

  • Developing external customer-facing Managed Database products (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, Kafka, OpenSearch, MongoDB).
  • Developing and maintaining distributed systems.
  • Authoring and giving feedback on technical designs.
  • Developing APIs with Go Lang.
  • Providing the last-line of support for DBaaS products.
  • Collaborating with an agile, self-managed team of peers.
  • Leveraging technologies such as Temporal, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Grafana and more.
  • Integrating with many components across the DigitalOcean stack.
  • Evangelizing the work of the team with Engineering, Product, Design, and beyond.

What We'll Expect From You :

  • A solid understanding of building and maintaining distributed systems.
  • Experience with resilience engineering, fault tolerance, and failure domains as they relate to database backends.
  • Strong spoken and written technical capabilities in developing and maintaining software.
  • Proficiency in developing APIs with Golang.
  • Experience with concurrency patterns in Golang.
  • Working knowledge of microservices using container workload engines and frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with CI / CD pipelines and frameworks.
  • A strong background and exposure to different databases.
  • Familiarity with prevalent message bus and queuing technologies.
  • Passion for collaborating directly with customers to discover their Jobs To Be Done, and developing simple delightful solutions to solve those jobs.
  • Ability to work closely with front-end developers.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate and demonstrate empathy with key stakeholders, both spoken and written.
  • Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean :

  • We innovate with purpose. You'll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
  • We prioritize career development. At DO, you'll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000 courses to support their continued growth and development.
  • We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
  • We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is between $110,000 -$142,700 based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You 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 equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
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