Senior Engineer, DigitalOcean
$120-170k
+ Equity
Cloud computing services for developers
Job no longer available
Cloud computing services for developers
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$120-170k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify cloud computing so developers and businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
Role
Who you are
- 8 + years of minimum experience developing, testing, and shipping well-engineered code (Go a plus!)
- 8 + years of minimum experience automating, operating, and troubleshooting production systems
- 3+ years of minimum experience with Linux operating systems and familiarity with storage fundamentals
- Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and service-oriented architectures
- 3+ years of minimum experience leading discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees
- Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming languages
- Experience with gRPC, S3, and distributed storage systems such as Ceph
- 4+ years of minimum experience designing, building, and operating network-distributed storage products in the enterprise or the cloud, experience building distributed block storage products is a plus
- Competency in virtualization storage stacks, such as snapshots and layers
- 1+ years of minimum experience with Linux virtualization with an emphasis on libvirt and QEMU
What the job involves
- We are looking for an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future storage platforms at scale
- The ultimate goal of the Droplet Storage Team is to create a cohesive singular interface to hypervisor storage where storage class placement decisions are transparent to the hypervisor client and take advantage of the full range of available block storage classes to best satisfy customer needs
- The selected candidate will have the opportunity to make impactful contributions to key software, contribute to the open source community, and debug interesting problems at cloudscale
- This role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Droplet Storage team and is currently only available remotely
- Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions
- Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
- Programming in Go and other languages
- Collaborating with a motivated team of peers
- Consuming from and contributing to free/open source software communities
- Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding environment
Our take
DigitalOcean offers computer network and storage capabilities that enable its users to quickly set up online businesses. Straightforward tools and attractive pricing have attracted hundreds of thousands of customers in the last decade, including pop superstar Beyoncé, who hosted a new album release on the company’s servers during its early years.
DigitalOcean has a strong customer base, but must continue to improve to stay relevant in such an extremely competitive space. The company battles with rivals such as Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Azure and Google's Cloud Platform, which are the undisputed leaders in the cloud computing market. Wisely, DigitalOcean avoids direct confrontation with these giants by focusing more on small businesses and startups and providing more savings opportunities for its users.
The company has boasted clients such as GitLab, Slack and HashiCorp amongst its impressive lists of customers. Additionally, the company has acquired Cloudways in a move to further simplify workflows for its clients that are looking to scale their digital businesses, it opened a new data center in Sydney, and expects to see a revenue rise between 9% and 12% over 2024.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2020
$50m
SERIES C
Jul 2015
$83m
SERIES B
Total funding: $173.2m
Company benefits
- Full health coverage
- Flexible vacation time
- An annual company offsite, Shark Week
- Monthly gym and internet reimbursement
- Parental leave with transition time built-in
- Formalized mentorship, LinkedIn Learning tracks, and other internal programs
- Work from home opportunities
- 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match
Company HQ
South Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Yancey Spruill
(CEO, not founder)Previously served as CFO and COO for SendGrid and as CFO for both TwentyEighty and DigitalGlobe.
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