Senior Engineer II, Fleet Efficiency

DigitalOcean•Boston, MA

1d•Remote

About The Position

DigitalOcean is seeking a passionate engineer to join the Fleet Efficiency team. This role focuses on maximizing the efficiency of the cloud hypervisor fleet while optimizing customer performance and availability. The team supports the scheduling of virtual machines using bin packing algorithms for efficient resource utilization. They also own automation for continuous resource monitoring, hypervisor maintenance, and customer experience support. The Software Engineer will contribute to the design, development, and operation of backend systems, working with distributed systems, systems engineering, performance tuning, and observability to ensure enterprise-grade reliability and usability.

Requirements

5+ years of experience developing, deploying, and managing distributed systems
Familiarity with concurrency and parallelism models in a modern programming language

Nice To Haves

experience with gRPC, LibVirt, Kubernetes
Cultivate your skills, learn languages, and team up with an agile, self-motivated group of peers to design, develop, test and deploy software in modern tools and languages such as Go

Responsibilities

Spearhead the development of our distributed scheduling and optimization services
Develop robust scripts, tools, and automation solutions to streamline virtualization processes, enhance system performance, and boost operational efficiency.
Collaborate closely with a cross-functional, motivated team of three engineers located in the US and Canada
Utilize Golang, Linux, Kubernetes, bash, LibVirt, KVM, Python, MySQL
Solve interesting and complex problems in a technically rewarding environment
Share responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of core compute products