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.

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

• 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!)