Senior Software Engineer (Compute)

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud

DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud

DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.

We want people who are passionate about creating products that you and your peers would love.

As an engineer on the Compute Engineering team, you will write software, build microservices and solve complex distributed systems problems. You will be responsible for building and managing the entire lifecycle of our core compute product: Droplets. You will define the next generation of cloud compute services and make developers lives (both inside DO and in the wild) easier. This is a unique opportunity to deliver the best hosted infrastructure experience in the industry to millions of developers around the world.

What Youll Be Doing:
• Building the services that build and manage Droplets (our customers very own Virtual Private Servers) and droplet base images.
• Designing, building, testing and scaling distributed systems.
• Programming primarily in Go and deploying to a Kubernetes environment.
• Building tools and automation that operate at scale.
• Collaborating with an agile, self-motivated team of peers.
• Contributing to and taking part in free/open source software communities.
• Solving interesting large-scale problems in a technically rewarding environment.
• Working on virtualization at many different levels, from the API and orchestration layers to the hypervisor.

What Youll Add to DigitalOcean:
• A passion for developing, testing, and shipping well-engineered code in the Go programming language (Go, Ruby, or Python experience is a plus!)
• 2+ years of experience developing scalable, resilient, fault-tolerant and highly distributed systems.
• Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming language.
• Knowledge of Linux and cloud concepts/protocols including containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), virtualization (kvm/qemu), microservices, REST, gRPC
• Ability to self-organize, take ownership, initiative and clearly communicate intent. Ours is a completely remote team so the ability to communicate effectively in a remote environment is key to being a part of this team and its success.
• Experience with any configuration management systems (Chef, Ansible and/or Puppet) is a plus but not required.

Why You ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:
• We reward our employees. The 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 for relevant 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. 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 on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.