DigitalOcean · 5 months ago
Senior Software Engineer I (Insights)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $143K/yr
3+ years expDigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company focused on simplifying cloud services. As a Software Engineer in the Insights team, you will develop the company's observability platform, enhancing the reliability and performance of systems to support both internal teams and customers.
Cloud ComputingDevOpsSaaSVirtualizationWeb Hosting
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain our Insights observability platform, including metrics collection, storage, visualization, and alerting systems
Own and drive initiatives independently from concept to production, with minimal oversight
Engineer solutions to meet both internal teams' and customers' observability needs
Create scalable services that are performant and highly reliable in a distributed environment
Take part in an on-call rotation and lead incident response efforts when needed
Operate complex distributed systems at scale with high reliability objectives
Maintain and improve our observability platform with a focus on enhancing reliability and performance
Mentor teammates and transfer knowledge through design docs, pairing sessions, and code reviews
Qualification
Required
Strong proficiency in Go with at least 3 years of experience in designing, building, and shipping production-grade Go applications
Proven Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) background with experience in implementing and maintaining reliable, scalable systems
Hands-on experience operating and managing Kafka clusters at scale
Extensive experience in designing, building, and running distributed systems in production environments
Demonstrable experience with observability platforms and tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
Familiarity with SLIs/SLOs and incident response best practices
Demonstrated ability to navigate the complexity of distributed systems to operate them in production
Strong ability to contribute meaningfully to discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees
Effective knowledge transfer skills and ability to mentor team members
Extensive experience working within a microservice architecture, with deep knowledge of both asynchronous, event-driven processing (particularly Kafka), and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests
Comfortable with rapid execution, learning from failure, and building for scale and reliability
Preferred
Experience in one or more of the following areas: Distributed Databases like Mongo, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc
Fully managed infrastructure solutions
Serverless components
Kubernetes
Containers and Container Registries
Experience in Agile software development methodologies
Experience working effectively on teams that operate across multiple time zones
Benefits
Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
Employee Assistance Program
Local Employee Meetups
Flexible time off policy
Company
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean provides a cloud platform to deploy, manage, and scale applications of any size.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.92BKey Investors
Global Secure InvestAccess IndustriesKeyBanc Capital Markets
2025-08-12Post Ipo Debt· $625M
2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $800M
2021-09-13Post Ipo Equity· $34.91M
Leadership Team
Paddy Srinivasan
Chief Executive Officer
Larry D'Angelo
Chief Revenue Officer
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