DigitalOcean is a dynamic, profitable, high-growth technology company serving a large & passionate community of developers around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing so developers & businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world.

We want people who are passionate about helping developers build, deploy, & bring their idea to life. DigitalOceans product engineering organization enables customers to easily build highly scalable creative applications & services on our cloud platform.  We serve a passionate developer community that has grown to love our intuitive simple design, easily configurable infrastructure, & intuitive tutorials helping craft & 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. Youll be a member of a global team building a Kubernetes platform to enable developers to easily deploy & orchestrate their containerized workloads.

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 & authoring engineering design documents.
• Breaking the design documents into actionable epics & stories with estimates.
• Independently lead projects 
• Running experiments to optimize user experience & increase adoption of DOKS.
• Contributing to & maintaining open-source projects, & collaborating with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, & podcasts.
• Finding emerging tools, trends, & methodologies & showing your team how to integrate them against existing systems & 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, & processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers & 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, & Docker.
• Language: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, ship, maintain, & operate production-ready code & 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 & interactions with data stores such as MySQL.
• Experience with custom Kubernetes controllers & CRDs
• Passion for shipping well-engineered & tested code.
• Strong analytical, communication, & organizational skills.
• A strong interest & 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, & 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 & developer velocity
• Experience writing technical blog posts/articles for the community
• Genuine interest in DigitalOcean as a company & excitement to use our products in your projects (if you havent already!)

Why Youll Like Working for DigitalOcean

• We innovate with purpose. Youll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud & 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, & scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action & a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, & decisions. 
• We prioritize career development. At DO, youll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest & 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, & education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth & 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 & preferences.
• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, & skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company & individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire & the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value diversity & inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, & recognize that diversity of thought & background builds stronger teams & products to serve our customers. We approach diversity & inclusion seriously & 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 job is located in Hyderabad, India

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