Senior Software Engineer, DigitalOcean
Droplet
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
- Proficient writing Go with an emphasis on writing tests and debugging tools like pprof. We use the latest and greatest features when they release: currently on Go1.22 (released Feb. 2024)
- Familiarity with concurrency & parallelism models in modern programming languages
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices
- Experience with gRPC and HTTP REST APIs
- Experience with the following data stores: MySQL, Kafka, Redis
What the job involves
- The Droplet Team owns the entire lifecycle of a Droplet and all of the related functionality: Creates, Destroys, Resize, Backups, Snapshots, Console, Capacity & Regions, droplet-agent and more
- We are looking for an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future Droplet capabilities at scale
- The ultimate goal of the Droplet Team is to create a solid and feature-rich foundation upon which our customers and our other products can build
- The selected candidate will have the opportunity to make impactful contributions to key software, contribute to the open source community, and debug interesting problems at cloudscale
- This role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Droplet team and is currently only available remotely
- Working closely with Product Managers to design and scope new features and capabilities
- Writing performant services and CLIs in Go with automated tests (unit, functional, e2e, load, benchmark)
- Shipping code to production on a daily basis
- Collaborating and communicating with other remote teams using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Github, Slack and Google Docs
- Identifying and employing new technologies and techniques that we can use to go faster!
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
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.
Insights
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
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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