<div><p>Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here.  We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world. </p></div><div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <h2>We want people who are passionate about building features that you and your peers will love</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This position is able to be hired in India, located in our hub city of Hyderabad.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Developing external customer-facing Managed Database products (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, Kafka, OpenSearch, MongoDB).</li> <li>Acting as a subject matter expert on MySQL and PostgreSQL, providing guidance on performance optimizations and administrative issues.</li> <li>Developing and maintaining distributed systems in a Kubernetes environment that is globally distributed.</li> <li>Authoring and giving feedback on technical designs.</li> <li>Developing APIs with Go.</li> <li>Mentoring other engineers on best practices and performing code reviews.</li> <li>Providing the last-line of support for DBaaS products.</li> <li>Collaborating with agile, self-managed teams of peers across other products. This includes engineers, product managers, designers, and more.</li> <li>Leveraging technologies such as Temporal, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Grafana and more.</li> <li>Integrating with many components across the DigitalOcean stack.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>8+ years of experience working in fast-paced, agile product development environments.</li> <li>5+ years of experience working as a subject-matter expert with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL databases.</li> <li>Strong knowledge of microservices using container workload engines and frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes.</li> <li>A track record of building and maintaining large distributed systems.</li> <li>Experience with resilience engineering, fault tolerance, and failure domains as they relate to database backends.</li> <li>Strong spoken and written technical capabilities in developing and maintaining software.</li> <li>Experience with concurrency patterns in Go.</li> <li>Experience with CI/CD pipelines and frameworks.</li> <li>A strong background and exposure to different databases, both SQL and NoSQL paradigms.</li> <li>Familiarity with prevalent message bus and queuing technologies.</li> <li>Passion for collaborating directly with customers to discover their Jobs To Be Done, and developing simple delightful solutions to solve those jobs.</li> <li>Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate and demonstrate empathy with key stakeholders, both spoken and written.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p><span>*This is a Hybrid role</span></p> <p><em><span><span>#LI-Hybrid</span></span></em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div><div><h2><strong>Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>We innovate with purpose. </strong>You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.</li> <li><strong>We prioritize career development.</strong> At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learnings 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.</li> <li><strong>We care about your well-being. </strong>Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.</li> <li><strong>We reward our employees. </strong>The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.</li> <li><strong>DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. </strong>We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.</li> </ul></div>

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Senior Software Engineer II (Database)

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