Senior Software Engineer I

What Youll Be Doing:

• Develop software for our Platform as a Service (PaaS) teams which includes Database as a Service (DBaaS) and Insights, Serverless, or Kubernetes.
• Engineer solutions to meet our customers business problems.
• Create scalable services that are performant and highly reliable.
• Take part in an on-call rotation.
• Operate our current solutions at scale.
• Maintain and operate our products.
• Technologies we use: Kubernetes, Go, gRPC, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Ember/React, and others

What You'll Add To DigitalOcean

• Language: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, ship, maintain, and operate production-ready code and systems. (Go experience is a requirement, 3 years + is desired).
• Experience in one or more of the following services is highly desirable:
• Distributed Databases like Mongo, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Fully managed infrastructure solutions
• Serverless components
• Kubernetes
• Containers and Container Registries
• 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.
• Comfortable with rapid execution, learning from failure, and building scale and reliability.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams on small to medium sized projects months in duration)
• Experience working on teams that operate across multiple time zones.

Compensation Range

• $114,000 - $142,700