Senior Software Engineer II

We want people who are passionate about building features that you and your peers will love

DigitalOcean's Managed Databases Team builds and runs the services and infrastructure for the DigitalOcean DBaaS product. We handle the full life cycle of Managed Databases from the APIs which let users create and manage their databases to software that automates the running, upgrading, and health of databases.

We are looking for a seasoned engineer to work on a small team focused on Database-as-a-Service products. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Datastores and Messaging team within the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) organization in Engineering. This role will involve technical leadership to scale our database platform to meet the needs of our growing customer base.

This position is able to be hired in India, located in our hub city of Hyderabad.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Developing external customer-facing Managed Database products (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, Kafka, OpenSearch, MongoDB).
• Acting as a subject matter expert on MySQL and PostgreSQL, providing guidance on performance optimizations and administrative issues.
• Developing and maintaining distributed systems in a Kubernetes environment that is globally distributed.
• Authoring and giving feedback on technical designs.
• Developing APIs with Go.
• Mentoring other engineers on best practices and performing code reviews.
• Providing the last-line of support for DBaaS products.
• Collaborating with agile, self-managed teams of peers across other products. This includes engineers, product managers, designers, and more.
• Leveraging technologies such as Temporal, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Grafana and more.
• Integrating with many components across the DigitalOcean stack.

What We'll Expect From You:

• 8+ years of experience working in fast-paced, agile product development environments.
• 5+ years of experience working as a subject-matter expert with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL databases.
• 3+ years of experience working with Go.
• Strong knowledge of microservices using container workload engines and frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• A track record of building and maintaining large distributed systems.
• Experience with resilience engineering, fault tolerance, and failure domains as they relate to database backends.
• Strong spoken and written technical capabilities in developing and maintaining software.
• Experience with concurrency patterns in Go.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and frameworks.
• A strong background and exposure to different databases, both SQL and NoSQL paradigms.
• Familiarity with prevalent message bus and queuing technologies.
• Passion for collaborating directly with customers to discover their Jobs To Be Done, and developing simple delightful solutions to solve those jobs.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate and demonstrate empathy with key stakeholders, both spoken and written.