Senior Storage Systems Engineer II

We want people who are passionate about building features that developers and businesses love!

DigitalOcean’s Storage Systems Team is responsible for the design, performance, durability, and efficiency of DigitalOcean’s persistent data stores. This role reports to the Storage Systems team Engineering Manager.

Our Stack: Go, C/C++, Linux, Ceph, libvirt, KVM, QEMU

Our Tools: AWX/Ansible, Chef, Elasticsearch, Git, Github Actions, GSuite, Jira, K8s, Slack, Victoria Metrics

Our Team: The person filling this position will report to the Sr. Manager of the Storage Systems team. Members of Storage Systems have a combination of responsibilities for the persistence software of DigitalOcean’s storage products as well as the lifecycle of hardware nodes inclusive of evaluation, certification, provisioning, and ongoing systems management.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Leveraging your 7+ years of experience towards the research, architecture, design, and development of class leading disaggregated block storage for DigitalOcean’s compute products.  
• Help design and lead a multi-year technical roadmap balancing short and long-term investments.  
• Collaborate with a motivated team of peers through key technical decision making. Author and review technical designs. 
• 5-20% of your time contributing to free/open source software communities.  
• Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding fast paced environment.

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Your background and experience in distributed storage systems, especially in large scale SaaS or IaaS environments.  
• Your exceptional collaboration and communication skills working in tandem with orchestration, compute, and product teams to deliver a solution our customers are thrilled about.  
• Provide guidance on continuously improving our storage services using real world usage data.  
• A product mindset that balances an exceptional customer storage experience with sustainable technology in the back end.  
• Sharing responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of existing storage products. Suggest and implement ways to improve our operability and scale. Previous Ceph or other open source storage system experience is a bonus.  

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 your overall well-being, from one-time work from home stipend to wellness allowance 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 between $170,000.00 - $200,000.00 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. 
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. 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.

*This is a remote role

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