Senior Engineer I, Observability

Digitalocean • San Francisco, CA

275d • $140,000 - $187,000 • Remote

About The Position

Observability Platforms is focused on creating visibility into DigitalOcean's services and infrastructure. We design, build, and operate the internal logging, metrics, distributed tracing, error reporting, monitoring, and alerting platforms that are depended on to ensure good, reliable experiences for DigitalOcean's customers. Through a mix of open source services and in-house developed software we seek to continuously improve the ability of DigitalOcean engineers and product managers to understand the behavior of their products and services in order to improve the experiences of our customers.

Requirements

• Experience with open source observability systems such as Opensearch and VictoriaMetrics, not just as an end user but as someone responsible for running and maintaining them.
• Familiarity with running software on container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes or Nomad.
• Experience writing software in Golang. Experience with the challenges of concurrency and distributed systems is a plus.
• Experience with DevOps tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and Github Actions (or other relevant CI/CD experience).
• An ability to work well as part of a geographically distributed team.
• Participation in a 24/7 on call rotation.
• Someone who is motivated to learn, teach, grow, explore, and seek out areas we can improve.
• Strong communication and customer service skills - we provide support to the internal users of the systems we design, build, and operate.

Responsibilities

• Integrating and operating open source observability software such as OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics, Alertmanager, Grafana, and Kibana.
• Implementing features to both improve the operability of our services and help design and implement the next generations of metrics and logging at DigitalOcean.
• Guiding other engineers on how they can best utilize our systems to gain confidence that their services are performing as expected.

Benefits

• Competitive array of benefits to support overall well-being.
• One-time work from home stipend.
• Wellness allowance.
• Flexible time off policy.
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses.
• Salary range between $140,000 - $187,000 based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills.
• Eligibility for a bonus based on company and individual performance.
• Equity compensation including equity grants upon hire and participation in Employee Stock Purchase Program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries