Database Engineer, DigitalOcean

• Expert level experience with Apache Kafka or like technologies running at large scale and on bare metal
• Distinguished track record developing and automating platform solutions that serve the needs of other engineering teams
• Experience with other data technologies such as MySQL, Clickhouse, or Cassandra
• Fluency in SQL, Python, Bash, or other scripting languages
• Experience with Linux performance troubleshooting
• Experience with configuration management tooling such as Chef & Ansible

Desirable

• We are looking for an experienced database engineer with an operations background in building sustainable solutions for data storage and streaming platforms
• Our team’s mission statement is to “provide tools and expertise to solve common operational problems, accelerating and simplifying product development.”
• As part of the team, you’ll be working with a variety of data-related technologies, including Kafka and Redis, in an effort to transform these technologies into platform services
• This is an opportunity to build the services and systems that will accelerate the development of DigitalOcean’s cloud features
• Services will provide highly available, operationally elegant solutions that serve as a foundation for a growing product base and serving a global audience
• This is a high-impact role and you’ll be working with a large variety of product engineering teams across the company
• Administration, operations, and performance tuning of multiple datastores with a focus on Apache Kafka
• Architecting new eventing platform database infrastructure on bare metal
• Delivering managed data platform solutions as a service that facilitate adoption and offer operational elegance
• Working closely with product engineering and infrastructure teams to drive the adoption of services throughout the company
• Instrument and monitor services developed to ensure operational performance
• Create tooling and automation to reduce operational burdens
• Establishing best practices for development, deployment, and operations
• Driving adoption of services throughout the company
• Interact with developers and teams to resolve site and database issues