Senior Engineer I (Storage)

DigitalOcean • Denver, CO

1d • Remote

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. We’re looking for a skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our Object Storage team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and operating the systems that power scalable, durable, and high-performance object storage for our customers. You will work closely with distributed systems, storage protocols (e.g., S3), performance tuning, and observability to ensure our platform meets enterprise-grade reliability and usability.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Knowledge of Object or other distributed Storage and how to scale those solutions.
• Familiarity with object storage systems such as MinIO, Ceph, AWS S3, Scality, or similar.
• Cultivating your skills, learning languages, and teaming up with an agile, self-motivated group of peers to design, develop, test and deploy software in modern tools and languages such as Go.
• Collaborating with and contributing to free and open source software communities
• Solving interesting problems of complexity and scale in a technically rewarding environment
• Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming language

Nice To Haves

• Experience with gRPC
• distributed data stores like Ceph
• storage hardware

Responsibilities

• Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions
• Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
• Programming in Go and other languages
• 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
• Sharing responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of storage products

Benefits

• We innovate with purpose.
• We prioritize career development.
• We care about your well-being.
• We reward our employees.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees