Job highlights
Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science,Engineering,or a related field. . 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
Experience delivering complex cloud-scale distributed systems,particularly in data and OLTP databases. . Golang and gRPC experience. Robust knowledge of K8s and deployment pipelines including Github Actions.
Job Summary
DigitalOcean is welcoming a recent technical engineering manager to support our engineers, grow our culture, and lead the team developing our customer and platform engineering product offerings. This person will be responsible for guiding the development of a mixed-skill engineering team, facilitating communications, providing clarity of vision and priority, and empowering the team to create creative solutions for our DigitalOcean customers. The team's mission is to simplify the customer and developer experience so they can focus on building and operating their applications to Get Growing.
What You ll Do:
Develop the control plane for a cloud DBaaS platform
Build highly scalable distributed systems at scale
Build and operate specific database engine controls to provision, destroy, scale, and backup clusters
Build world class telemetry and logging to provide proactive signals and alerts to both engineering teams and customers if something isn t right
Orchestrate complex workflows for various database engines
Automate and create playbooks for operations related to owning and running database engines that may include minor or major upgrades, security patching, and other maintenance events
Stay current with trends in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes operators, control plane patterns, and the DBaaS competitive landscape to inform long-term technical strategy.
What You ll Add to DigitalOcean:
Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years of experience in software engineering
Experience delivering complex cloud-scale distributed systems, particularly in data and OLTP databases.
Golang and gRPC experience
Solid knowledge of K8s and deployment pipelines including Github Actions
Preferred: Experience with orchestration engines such as Temporal
Preferred: Operation experience with MongoDB
Systems thinking.
Strong opinions, weakly held.