Senior Software Engineer II (Storage)

DigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company focused on simplifying cloud solutions for developers and businesses. The Senior Software Engineer II will lead engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions and support the operations of distributed systems while collaborating with a motivated team.

Responsibilities:

• Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions
• Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
• Programming in Go and other languages
• Collaborating with a motivated team of peers
• Consuming from and contributing to free/open source software communities
• Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding environment

Requirements:

• Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions
• Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
• Programming in Go and other languages
• Collaborating with a motivated team of peers
• Consuming from and contributing to free/open source software communities
• Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding environment
• Design, develop, test, and deploy software in modern tools and languages, such as Go, while continually cultivating your skills and collaborating with an agile, self-motivated team
• Experience automating, operating, and troubleshooting production systems; maintaining the availability and performance of storage products
• Experience with Linux operating systems and familiarity with storage fundamentals
• Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and service-oriented architectures
• Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming languages
• Any relevant domain experience such as Ceph, S3, block storage, containerization, software routing and load balancing
• Experience leading discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees