Senior Infrastructure Engineer II

DigitalOcean is a company focused on building scalable cloud solutions. They are seeking a motivated and experienced infrastructure engineer to architect, build, and support their Provisioning Automation system, with a primary mission to deliver GPU systems rapidly.

Responsibilities:

• Developing impactful, new and innovative systems that will help DigitalOcean scale
• Responding to provisioning failures
• Working to ensure that common provisioning failures do not recur (likely via automation)
• Collaborating with sibling teams to deliver on wider organizational goals
• Bringing new and actionable information to light via developing visualization tooling
• Having fun with an amazing and welcoming team 🙂
• Developed a “provisioning-specific view” in our visualization interface
• Architected the MVP of an automated provisioning system
• Manually provisioned 300+ systems in order to meet aggressive deadlines (we’re not above manual work to hit our goals and feel the pain of our customers!)
• Developed firmware alerts for hardware system firmware being out-of-date

Requirements:

• Programming Languages: python, golang, shell
• Systems: Linux, Containers, StackStorm, Ansible
• Theory: Distributed Systems, Complex System Failure, Resilient Architecture, Quality Engineering
• Significant experience administering Linux servers
• Strong experience with Python, Ruby, or Golang
• Familiarity with git
• Familiarity with shell scripting
• Familiarity with continuous integration systems and concepts
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Comfort executing in an asynchronous remote environment
• Transparency, honesty, and openness to constructive feedback
• A desire to work with a respectful and inclusive team
• StackStorm experience
• Familiarity with Github Actions