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DigitalOcean · 2 days ago

API Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

$110K/yr - $130K/yr

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Responsibilities

Collaborating with engineers, UX, product, support, data science and more to provide a consistent, coherent public API.

Providing expertise on the public API, API Gateway, API Tokens, doctl CLI and API client tools to support the larger engineering community at DigitalOcean in delivering products and features.

Partnering with our infrastructure teams for shared infrastructure needs (Auth, Deployment, Observability).

Build features and fix bugs on full stack production applications built with React front ends, Go based back end services and MySQL databases

Monitoring our production services and responding to incidents. This includes troubleshooting complex distributed systems.

Interacting directly with the developer community via Github PRs, etc.

Engaging with the larger engineering community at DigitalOcean to identify gaps and craft impactful improvements that meet the needs of the business.

Participate in a culture of writing: 1-Pagers, ADRs, and RFCs that drive awareness and incorporate the voice of our internal and external customers in our roadmaps and proposals.

Participating in large multi-quarter projects and efforts.

Responding to Slack messages and keeping up with various streams of conversation, including triaging user support requests.

You will be on call at times, and expected to handle unexpected incidents.

Qualification

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Go ProgrammingJavaC#PythonTypeScriptDistributed SystemsCI/CDGitHub ActionsSynthetic TestingSmoke TestingAlertingCross-Functional CollaborationDocumentationPresentationsDockerKubernetesLinuxCustomer InteractionProblem-SolvingEmpathyClear CommunicationCuriosityAPI DesignRESTGraphQLGRPCAPI VersioningAccess ControlTerraformOpenAPI v3

Required

Passion for delivering simple and elegant solutions that developers will love.

Empathy for our developer users and the customers/stakeholders you support.

Proficiency with the Go programming language. Proficiency in additional languages is a plus (Java, C#, Python, TypeScript etc.)

Experience with distributed systems: building, operating, maintaining and troubleshooting.

Experience with CI/CD, GitHub Actions, synthetic and smoke testing, and alerting.

Expertise working cross-functionally with distributed teams.

Clear communication through effective and crisp documentation, presentations, and asynchronous channels in a remote environment.

A natural curiosity in what lies beyond the existing status quo to improve how we operate and deliver for our internal and external customers, and the products we build to empower their success.

Familiarity with docker, kubernetes and linux based operating systems.

Experience interacting with customers directly through various channels.

Preferred

Opinions about API, client and CLI design: Who are the inspirational/aspirational companies doing it well or not so well in your estimation?

Some familiarity/experience with at least two of REST, GraphQL, and gRPC, extensive knowledge of at least one.

Understanding of API versioning strategies, access control, and other best practices.

Familiarity with Terraform is a plus.

Familiarity with OpenAPI v3 and/or API contract testing a plus.

Experience with implementation and maintenance of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Experience building and maintaining CLI-based tooling for engineers.

Experience with API Gateways, HAProxy load balancers or Consul.

React/TypeScript experience.

Benefits

Equity compensation

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Reimbursement for conferences, training, and education

Competitive array of benefits

Company

DigitalOcean

Glassdoor

3.9

DigitalOcean provides a cloud platform to deploy, manage, and scale applications of any size.

Founded in 2012

New York, New York, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

http://www.digitalocean.com

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