Senior Software Engineer, DigitalOcean
Kubernetes
Cloud computing services for developers
Job no longer available
Cloud computing services for developers
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify cloud computing so developers and businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
Role
Who you are
- Exemplify DigitalOcean values
- Kubernetes management experience
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification preferred
- Experience with Go, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Language: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, ship, maintain, and operate production-ready code and systems. (Go experience is a requirement, 3 years + is desired)
- Experience with API development and interactions with data stores such as MySQL
- Passion for shipping well-engineered and tested code
- Ability to navigate the complexity of distributed systems to operate them in production
- Experience contributing meaningfully to discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees
- Comfortable with rapid execution, learning from failure, and building scale and reliability
- Demonstrated experience leading teams on small to medium sized projects (3 - 6 months in duration)
- Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills
- Experience in Agile software development methodologies
- A strong interest and obsession with building quality software focused on enabling developers to iterate on their ideas
- Genuine interest in DigitalOcean as a company and excitement to use our products in your projects (if you haven’t already!)
What the job involves
- DigitalOcean’s product engineering organization enables customers to easily build highly scalable creative applications and services on our cloud platform
- We serve a passionate developer community that has grown to love our intuitive simple design, easily configurable infrastructure, and intuitive tutorials helping craft and run their software in the cloud
- As an engineer on the DigitalOcean Kubernetes team, you will be responsible for continuing to build the DigitalOcean Kubernetes product
- You’ll be a member of a team building a Kubernetes platform to enable developers to easily deploy and orchestrate their containerized workloads
- Developing the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product (DOKS)
- Collaborating to build intuitive, delightful experiences for developers as they engage with DigitalOcean and partner products and services
- Developing back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes
- Designing back-end service and authoring engineering design documents
- Create scalable services that are performant and highly reliable
- Take part in an on-call rotation
- Maintain and operate our current solutions at scale
- Running experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS
- Contributing to open-source projects, and collaborating with our developer community
- Finding emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and showing your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes
- Working within a microservice architecture, with knowledge of both asynchronous, event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests
- Working on teams that operate across multiple time zones
Our take
DigitalOcean offers computer network and storage capabilities that enable its users to quickly set up online businesses. Straightforward tools and attractive pricing have attracted hundreds of thousands of customers in the last decade, including pop superstar Beyoncé, who hosted a new album release on the company’s servers during its early years.
DigitalOcean has a strong customer base, but must continue to improve to stay relevant in such an extremely competitive space. The company battles with rivals such as Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Azure and Google's Cloud Platform, which are the undisputed leaders in the cloud computing market. Wisely, DigitalOcean avoids direct confrontation with these giants by focusing more on small businesses and startups and providing more savings opportunities for its users.
The company has boasted clients such as GitLab, Slack and HashiCorp amongst its impressive lists of customers. Additionally, the company has acquired Cloudways in a move to further simplify workflows for its clients that are looking to scale their digital businesses, it opened a new data center in Sydney, and expects to see a revenue rise between 9% and 12% over 2024.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2020
$50m
SERIES C
Jul 2015
$83m
SERIES B
Total funding: $173.2m
Company benefits
- Full health coverage
- Flexible vacation time
- An annual company offsite, Shark Week
- Monthly gym and internet reimbursement
- Parental leave with transition time built-in
- Formalized mentorship, LinkedIn Learning tracks, and other internal programs
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Our community is bigger than us
- Simplicity is in all we DO
- We speak up when we have something to say and listen when others DO
- We are accountable to deliver on our commitments
- Love is at our core
Company HQ
South Village, New York, NY
Articles
Founders
Yancey Spruill
(CEO, not founder)Previously served as CFO and COO for SendGrid and as CFO for both TwentyEighty and DigitalGlobe.
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