Senior Software Engineer II (Droplet Team)

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Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years experience programming in Go
• Minimum 7 years of software engineering experience
• Experience working with complex, distributed systems
• Experience working within a microservice architecture, with knowledge of both asynchronous, event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests
• Experience developing high-availability, highly-scalable APIs that have been used by thousands of users or more
• A passion for shipping well-engineered and well-tested code
• Strong analytical, communications, and organizational skills
• Experience in agile software development methodologies
• CI/CD experience with a focus on quality and developer velocity

Responsibilities:

• Designing and building highly-efficient scalable services that manage DigitalOcean Droplets (our customers’ own Virtual Private Servers)
• Designing and building internal tooling to support the myriad other teams within DigitalOcean that build their products atop Droplets
• Debugging and troubleshooting complex production issues across datacenters in real time and enhancing our playbooks and automation to mitigate and prevent their recurrence
• Participating in team efforts to improve visibility on all aspects of performance metrics
• Using technologies and tools such as Linux, Go, gRPC, Docker, Prometheus, MySQL, and more.