Staff Software Engineer (Kubernetes)

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.

We want people who are passionate about helping developers build, deploy, and bring their idea to life. DigitalOcean's product engineering organization enables customers to easily build highly scalable creative applications and services on our cloud platform. We serve a passionate developer community that has grown to love our intuitive simple design, easily configurable infrastructure, and intuitive tutorials helping craft and run their software in the cloud.

As an engineer on the DigitalOcean Kubernetes team, you will be responsible for continuing to build the DigitalOcean Kubernetes product. You'll be a member of a global team building a Kubernetes platform to enable developers to easily deploy and orchestrate their containerized workloads.

What You'll Do

• 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

Why You'll Like Working for DigitalOcean

Skills Required

Docker, Mysql, Api Development, Go, Kubernetes, Microservice Architecture, GRPC