Lead the development and support of storage platforms, create innovative solutions, mentor the team, and contribute to open-source software communities.
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.
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.
What You’ll Be Doing:- 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
- 15+ years of knowledge of Network based Block Storage, Object Storage and distributed File Systems and how to scale those solutions.
- 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.
- 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
- Solving interesting problems of complexity and scale in a technically rewarding environment
- Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming languageBonus:
- Experience with gRPC, distributed data stores like Ceph, NVMe over TCP, and storage hardware in general
- $235,00 - $298,000
*This is a remote role
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- 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.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Top Skills
Ceph
Distributed Data Stores
Go
Grpc
Nvme Over Tcp
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