123 applicants

Company

DigitalOcean · 1 day ago

Senior Software Engineer II (Kubernetes)

Boston, MA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$180K/yr - $250K/yr

7+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Developing the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.

Collaborating to build intuitive, delightful experiences for developers as they engage with DigitalOcean.

Developing back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.

Designing back-end services and authoring engineering design documents.

Breaking the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.

Independently lead projects

Running experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.

Contributing to and maintaining open-source projects, and collaborating with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.

Finding emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and showing your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.

Ability to navigate the complexity of distributed systems to operate them in production.

Regular interactions with important customers to understand their needs in the product

Contributing meaningfully to discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.

Experience working on teams that operate across multiple time zones.

Qualification

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GoKubernetesDockerDistributed systemsAPI developmentMySQLCustom Kubernetes controllersMicroservice architectureCI/CDAgile methodologiesNetwork engineeringAI automationTechnical writingSelf learner mentality

Required

Experience working with complex distributed systems

Experience with Go, Kubernetes, and Docker.

Demonstrated ability to develop, test, ship, maintain, and operate production-ready code and systems.

Software engineering experience 7 years+

Experience hosting Kubernetes clusters at scale

Experience with API development and interactions with data stores such as MySQL.

Experience with custom Kubernetes controllers and CRDs

Passion for shipping well-engineered and tested code.

Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.

A strong interest and obsession with building quality software focused on enabling developers to iterate on their ideas.

A self learner mentality

Experience in Agile software development methodologies.

Experience working within a microservice architecture, with knowledge of both asynchronous, event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests.

Be comfortable working in a fast paced engineering organization

Genuine interest in DigitalOcean as a company and excitement to use our products in your projects.

Preferred

Network engineering experience (cilium experience preferred)

Experience integrating AI automation into a managed Kubernetes platform

CI/CD experience with a focus on quality and developer velocity

Experience writing technical blog posts/articles for the community

Benefits

Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education

Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses

One-time work from home stipend

Wellness allowance

Flexible time off policy

Equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program

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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