We want people who are passionate about building the infrastructure & platforms that will improve the resiliency, scaling, & development speed for cloud services.

We are looking for an experienced database engineer with an operations background in building sustainable solutions for data storage & streaming platforms. Our teams mission statement is to provide tools & expertise to solve common operational problems, accelerating & simplifying product development. As part of the team, youll be working with a variety of data-related technologies, including MySQL, Clickhouse, Kafka, & Redis, in an effort to transform these technologies into platform services. NOTE: this is not a data scientist role, rather this role is to help design & build datastore-related platforms for internal stakeholder groups within DigitalOcean.  See more below for role expectations.

This is an opportunity to build the services & systems that will accelerate the development of DigitalOceans cloud features. Services will provide highly available, operationally elegant solutions that serve as a foundation for a growing product base & serving a global audience. This is a high-impact role & youll be working with a large variety of product engineering teams across the company.

What Youll Be Doing:

• Administration, operations, & performance tuning of Vitess-managed MySQL datastores ,with a focus on large-scale, sharded environments

• Architecting new Vitess-based MySQL database infrastructure on bare metal

• Delivering managed data platform solutions as a service that facilitate adoption & offer operational elegance 

• Working closely with product engineering & infrastructure teams to drive adoption of services throughout the company

• Instrument & monitor services developed to ensure operational performance 

• Create tooling & automation to reduce operational burdens

• Establishing best practices for development, deployment, & operations

• Driving adoption of services throughout the company

• Interact with developers & teams to resolve site & database issues

What Well Expect From You:

• Experience supporting MySQL (ideally with Vitess or other sharding solutions) in a production environment, with in-depth knowledge of backups, high availability, sharding, & performance tuning

• Distinguished track record developing & automating platform solutions that serve the needs of other engineering teams 

• Experience with other data technologies such as Kafka & Redis

• Fluency in SQL, Python, Bash, or other scripting languages

• Experience with Linux performance troubleshooting

• Experience with configuration management tooling such as Chef & Ansible

What Wed Love You To Have:

• An understanding of using ProxySQL & Kubernetes

• Familiarity with continuous integration tools such as Concourse, GitHub Actions

• Some familiarity with Go readability

• Passion for production engineering done in a resilient fashion

• You have a passion for not repeating yourself (DRY) by way of automation

What Will Not Be Expected From You:

• Demonstrated expertise in being a data scientist - this role has much more production engineering focus

• Crunching mundane support tickets day over day - be the Automator

• Following a lengthy & strict product roadmap - engineers wear product hats as needed & help define what platform gets built

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 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 & preferences.
• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is between $114,160.00 - $157,000.00 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 is a remote role

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