Senior Engineer II (Managed Kubernetes)

DigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company focused on simplifying cloud and AI solutions. They are seeking a Senior Engineer II who is passionate about Kubernetes to develop and enhance their managed Kubernetes product, contributing to both backend services and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Develop the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product
• Contribute to our growing GPU offering to support scalable inference workloads at DigitalOcean
• Develop back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes
• Design back-end services and author engineering design documents
• Raise the bar for Operational Excellence
• Independently lead projects
• Navigate the complexity of distributed systems and operate them in production
• Break the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates
• Run experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS
• Contribute to and maintain open-source projects, and collaborate with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts
• Find emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and show your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes
• Regularly interact with important customers to understand their needs in the product
• Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architecture, implementation, design patterns, and processes while being able to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees
• Work on teams that operate across multiple time zones

Requirements:

• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and Go
• Experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale
• Ability to drive complex projects from inception through completion