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