Senior Software Engineer

digitalocean

Hyderabad NM Years Exp Posted 266d ago

What You Will Be Doing:

Developing the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
Collaborating to build intuitive, delightful experiences for developers as they engage with DigitalOcean.
Developing back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
Designing back-end services and authoring engineering design documents.
Breaking the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
Independently lead projects
Running experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
Contributing to and maintaining open-source projects, and collaborating with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
Finding emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and showing your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.
Ability to navigate the complexity of distributed systems to operate them in production.
Regular interactions with important customers to understand their needs in the product
Contributing meaningfully to discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
Experience working on teams that operate across multiple time zones.

Experience working with complex distributed systems
Experience with Go, Kubernetes, and Docker.
Language: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, ship, maintain, and operate production-ready code and systems. (Go experience is a requirement, 3 years + is desired).
Software engineering experience 7 years+
Experience hosting Kubernetes clusters at scale
Experience with API development and interactions with data stores such as MySQL.
Experience with custom Kubernetes controllers and CRDs
Passion for shipping well-engineered and tested code.
Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
A strong interest and obsession with building quality software focused on enabling developers to iterate on their ideas.
A self learner mentality
Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
Experience working within a microservice architecture, with knowledge of both asynchronous, event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests.
Be comfortable working in a fast paced engineering organization
Highly desirable skills/experience include:
Network engineering experience (cilium experience preferred)
Experience integrating AI automation into a managed Kubernetes platform
CI/CD experience with a focus on quality and developer velocity
Experience writing technical blog posts/articles for the community
Genuine interest in DigitalOcean as a company and excitement to use our products in your projects (if you haven’t already!)