Senior Infrastructure Fleet Storage Engineer, DigitalOcean
$160-215k
Cloud computing services for developers
Job no longer available
Cloud computing services for developers
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$160-215k
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
- 7+ years minimum, of job related experience towards the research, architecture, design, and development of class leading disaggregated block storage for Digital Ocean’s compute products
- Your background and experience in distributed storage systems, especially in large scale SaaS or IaaS environments
- Your exceptional collaboration and communication skills working in tandem with orchestration, compute, and product teams to deliver a solution our customers are thrilled about
- Provide guidance on continuously improving our storage services using real world usage data
- A product mindset that balances an exceptional customer storage experience with sustainable technology in the back end
- Sharing responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of existing storage products. Suggest and implement ways to improve our operability and scale. Previous Ceph or other open source storage system experience is a bonus
What the job involves
- DigitalOcean’s Infrastructure Fleet Storage Team is responsible for the design, performance, durability, and efficiency of Digital Ocean’s persistent data stores. This role reports to the Infra Fleet Storage team Engineering Manager
- Our Stack: C/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. Manager of Storage (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
- Leveraging your 7+ years minimum, of job related experience towards the research, architecture, design, and development of class leading disaggregated block storage for Digital Ocean’s compute products
- Help design and lead a multi-year technical roadmap balancing short and long-term investments
- Collaborate with a motivated team of peers through key technical decision making. Author and review technical designs
- 5-20% of your time contributing to free/open source software communities
- Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding fast paced 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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