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Senior Engineer I

11/3/2025

Develop software for Platform as a Service teams and engineer solutions to meet customer business problems. Create scalable services that are performant and highly reliable while maintaining and operating existing products.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

1,001-5,000 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
DigitalOcean simplifies cloud computing so businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With its mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean helps developers at startups and growing digital businesses rapidly build, deploy and scale, whether creating a digital presence or building digital products. DigitalOcean combines the power of simplicity, security, community and customer support so customers can spend less time managing their infrastructure and more time building innovative applications that drive business growth.
About the Role
<div class="content-intro"><p>Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. &nbsp;We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.&nbsp;</p></div><div id="56$309310-input" class="WD0F" data-automation-id="decorationWrapper"> <div class="WB-I WC-I"> <div id="56$309310-input--uid75-input" class="WL-X WO-X WF2X WG2X WKXX WN-X WE5 WM-X" data-automation-id="richTextEditor" data-no-h="true" data-metadata-id="56$309310" data-uxi-widget-editable="false" data-uxi-form-item-child-list-index="2"> <div class="GWTCKEditor-Disabled"> <p data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><strong>We want people who are passionate about building apps that you and your peers will love.</strong>As a Software Engineer at DigitalOcean, the software you write will power applications for over a million users around the globe. You will help define the next generation of cloud services and create flexible and powerful solutions that our customers will leverage to support our growing customer base. Your solutions will make developers’ lives (both inside DO and in the ‘wild’) easier by building new systems and improving the efficiency and performance of existing systems.If your passion is building products and systems customers rely on every day, DigitalOcean is the right place for you.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Develop software for our Platform as a Service (PaaS) teams which includes Database as a Service (DBaaS) and Insights, Serverless, or Kubernetes.</li> <li>Engineer solutions to meet our customers’ business problems.</li> <li>Create scalable services that are performant and highly reliable.</li> <li>Take part in an on-call rotation.</li> <li>Operate our current solutions at scale.</li> <li>Maintain and operate our products.</li> <li>Technologies we use: Kubernetes, Go, gRPC, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Ember/React, and others</li> </ul> <h2>What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:</h2> <ul> <li>Language: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, ship, maintain, and operate production-ready code and systems. (Go experience is a requirement, 3 years + is desired).</li> <li>Experience in one or more of the following services is highly desirable:</li> <li>Ability to navigate the complexity of distributed systems to operate them in production.</li> <li>Experience contributing meaningfully to discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.</li> <li>Experience in Agile software development methodologies.</li> <li>Experience working within a microservice architecture, with knowledge of both asynchronous, event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests.</li> <li>Comfortable with rapid execution, learning from failure, and building scale and reliability.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience leading teams on small to medium sized projects (3 - 6 months in duration)</li> <li>Experience working on teams that operate across multiple time zones.</li> </ul> <span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">*This is a Hybrid role</span></div> </div> </div> </div> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">#LI-Hybrid</span><br><br></span></em></p><div class="content-conclusion"><h2 class="p-rich_text_section"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean</strong></h2> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">We innovate with purpose. </strong>You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">We prioritize career development.</strong> At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">We care about your well-being.&nbsp;</strong>Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">We reward our employees. </strong>The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You 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 equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. </strong>We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.</li> </ul></div>
Key Skills
GoKubernetesgRPCMySQLRedisKafkaEmberReactDistributed DatabasesServerless ComponentsMicroservice ArchitectureAgile MethodologiesEvent-Driven ProcessingSynchronous RequestsProduction-Ready CodeTeam Leadership
Categories
TechnologySoftwareEngineering
Benefits
Work From Home StipendWellness AllowanceFlexible Time Off PolicyReimbursement For Relevant ConferencesTrainingEducationEquity CompensationEmployee Stock Purchase Program
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