Senior Software Engineer (Insights)
Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?
Headquartered in New York but based around the world, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing for every developer. We are working on solving some of the most challenging and interesting technology projects around, on a scale unmatched by most.
We are building the Insights Platform to support our customer's observability needs.
On DigitalOcean's Insights Team, you will build and operate cloud-scale distributed time-series databases powering all customer insights. We ingest and store 4 5 billion metrics every day for our customers. As a member of the team, you will be responsible for automating the operations while extending the platform to meet our customers' needs and internal product teams.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Operating and automating our infrastructure and system software to measurably increase team velocity
- Developing a mastery of configuration management, CI/CD, and observability tooling
- Working with other platform and infrastructure teams to ensure our systems are reliable, resilient, and secure
- Working with exciting technologies such as Kubernetes, Prometheus/Thanos, Go, Java, Docker, Kafka, ScyllaDB, Kafka Streams and more.
What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:
- System administration experiences leveraging Linux and Open Source web technologies
- Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Go, C/C++, Java. We primarily use Go, but we also have systems written in other languages such as Java.
- A willingness to dive into configuration management, deployment automation, and instrumentation.
- An appreciation of SRE principles, along with utilizing data and automation to improve systems.
- Excellent communication skills. We work intimately with product teams to ensure our customers have the observability they need to be successful on our platform.
- Empathy and appreciation of front end technologies such as React and GraphQL. We step up to move the needle wherever that code may be.
Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean:
- We reward our employees . The salary range for this position is based on relevant years of experience and skills. Employees 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 grants of equity upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging our teams and employees to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs. We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- We care about your well-being. In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a competitive array of benefits. In the United States, these include health insurance, unlimited vacation, retirement benefits, a generous parental leave program, and additional resources to support employees' overall well-being. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.
- We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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