Principal Storage Engineer

DigitaloceanSeattle, WA
111d$235,000 - $298,000

About The Position

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. We are looking for an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future storage platforms at scale. The Storage Team supports the operations and development of block volumes, backups and image management, and object storage. The ultimate goal of the Storage Team is to create a cohesive singular interface to hypervisor storage where storage class placement decisions are transparent to the hypervisor client and take advantage of the full range of available block storage classes to best satisfy customer needs. In addition they are responsible for providing Object and NFS based Storage to the customers as well. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to make impactful contributions to key software, contribute to the open source community, and debug interesting problems at cloudscale.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of knowledge of Network based Block Storage, Object Storage and distributed File Systems and how to scale those solutions
  • Strong architecture skills
  • Sharing responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of storage products
  • Collaborating with and contributing to free and open source software communities
  • Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming language

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with gRPC
  • Experience with distributed data stores like Ceph
  • Experience with NVMe over TCP
  • Experience with storage hardware in general

Responsibilities

  • Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions
  • Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
  • Programming in Go and other languages
  • Mentoring and collaborating with a motivated team of peers
  • Consuming from and contributing to free/open source software communities
  • Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding environment

Benefits

  • Competitive array of benefits including Employee Assistance Program
  • Local Employee Meetups
  • Flexible time off policy
  • Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
  • Salary range of $235,000 - $298,000
  • Bonus eligibility based on company and individual performance
  • Equity compensation including equity grants upon hire and participation in Employee Stock Purchase Program
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