Senior Engineer I

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 …