Staff Software Engineer (Databases)

DigitalOcean is looking for a seasoned engineer to work on a small team focused on Database-as-a-Service products. The ideal candidate will have 14+ years of experience in fast-paced, agile product development environments, and 5+ years of experience as a subject-matter expert with MySQL databases.

Requirements

• 14+ years of experience working in fast-paced, agile product development environments
• 5+ years of experience working as a subject-matter expert with MySQL databases
• Strong knowledge of microservices using container workload engines and frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes
• A track record of building and maintaining large distributed systems
• Experience with resilience engineering, fault tolerance, and failure domains as they relate to database backends
• Strong spoken and written technical capabilities in developing and maintaining software
• Experience with concurrency patterns in Go
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and frameworks
• A strong background and exposure to different databases, both SQL and NoSQL paradigms
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms, cloud-native database architectures and control plane design
• Experience building APIs (REST, gRPC) and service-oriented architectures
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers
• Passion for collaborating directly with customers to discover their Jobs To Be Done, and developing simple delightful solutions to solve those jobs
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate and demonstrate empathy with key stakeholders, both spoken and written

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Bonus in addition to base salary
• Equity compensation
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Flexible time off policy
• Local Employee Meetups
• Employee Assistance Program
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
• Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses