Principal Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

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 designing and operating secure systems at scale.

We are looking for someone familiar with our stack, understands our tools, is comfortable working remotely, enjoys working in open source and is excited about our mission.

At DigitalOcean, we believe in creating simple, yet powerful, foundations (with love) from which our community can build. The Infrastructure Fleet Organization delivers on this mission by building performant, reliable, modern, efficient and secure platform foundations for all DigitalOcean products.

Our Stack: C, Linux, Python, Go, LibVirt, KVM, QEMU, CEPH

Our Tools: AWX, Chef, Elasticsearch, Git, Github Actions, GSuite, Jira, Nomad, Slack, Victoria Metrics

Our Team: The person filling this position will report to the Sr. Engineering Director of the Infrastructure Fleet Organization (Infra::Fleet). Infra::Fleet is currently composed of 7 teams and is made up of 60 diverse engineers located across the US, Canada, and Europe.  

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Driving technical strategy for large cross functional initiatives
• Influencing a culture of engineering excellence through active engagement with DigitalOcean’s Architecture group
• Working directly with individual engineering teams to deliver new infrastructure functions and technologies in support of DigitalOcean products
• Contribute to the creation of the next generation scalable DigitalOcean cloud
• Drive technical strategy that influences medium and long term roadmaps
• 5-20% of your time is spent contributing to open source communities related to our stack and encouraging your fellow sharks to do the same

What We’ll Expect From You:

• A track record of upstream contribution and influence in relevant open source communities (like kernel and QEMU)
• Experience driving technical strategy for a company or larger organization
• Strong collaborator and consensus builder
• Experience troubleshooting, analyzing, and debugging relevant virtualization stacks (kernel, KVM, QEMU)
• Experience as a software engineer/developer in a large scale, distributed environment
• Experience writing secure, testable and robust low-level code
• Deep understanding of operating systems, virtualization and …