We want people who are passionate about building features that developers and businesses love, FAST!

DigitalOcean’s Droplet Team is a remote team that builds and operates the Droplet virtual machines that are the foundation of our business and our other products. We’re creating flexible and powerful solutions that our customers will leverage to ship their software as quickly, easily, and safely as possible.

The Droplet Team owns the entire lifecycle of a Droplet and all of the related functionality: Creates, Destroys, Resize, Backups, Snapshots, Console, Capacity & Regions, droplet-agent and more.  We are looking for an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future Droplet capabilities at scale. The ultimate goal of the Droplet Team is to create a solid and feature-rich foundation upon which our customers and our other products can build.

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 team and is currently only available remotely.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Working closely with Product Managers to design and scope new features and capabilities.
• Writing performant services and CLIs in Go with automated tests (unit, functional, e2e, load, benchmark).
• Shipping code to production on a daily basis.
• Collaborating and communicating with other remote teams using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Github, Slack and Google Docs.
• Identifying and employing new technologies and techniques that we can use to go faster!

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Proficient writing Go with an emphasis on writing tests and debugging tools like pprof. We use the latest and greatest features when they release: currently on Go1.22 (released Feb. 2024).
• Familiarity with concurrency & parallelism models in modern programming languages.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices.
• Experience with gRPC and HTTP REST APIs.
• Experience with the following data stores: MySQL, Kafka, Redis.

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees. The base salary range for this position is based on relevant years of experience and skills. Employees may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary;  bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees including grants of equity upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry.  We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging our teams and employees to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs. We provide all employees with reimbursement relevant for conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your well-being. In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a competitive array of benefits. In the United States, these include health insurance, flexible vacation, retirement benefits, a generous parental-level program, and additional resources to support employees’ overall well-being. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal-opportunity employer and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 

 

*This is a remote role

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