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Senior Software Engineer I (Storage)

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In-Office
Austin, TX
139K-174K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
Austin, TX
139K-174K Annually
Senior level
Lead engineering efforts for innovative storage solutions, support distributed systems, program in Go, and contribute to open-source communities.
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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 building features that developers and businesses love!

DigitalOcean’s Storage Team is a remote team that builds and operates cloud-scale distributed storage powering internal and customer-facing services and products. We’re creating flexible and powerful solutions that our customers will leverage to ship their software as quickly, easily, and safely as possible.

The Object Storage Team supports the operations and development of business logic, middleware, edge, and API solutions of our S3-compatible object store, Spaces. We are looking for an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future storage platforms at scale.

The selected candidate will have the opportunity to make impactful contributions to the Spaces service ecosystem, contribute to the open source community, and debug interesting problems at cloudscale. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Object Storage team and is currently only available remotely. 

What You’ll Be Doing:
  • Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions
  • Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
  • Programming in Go and other languages
  • Collaborating with a motivated team of peers
  • Consuming from and contributing to free/open source software communities
  • Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding environment
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
  • Design, develop, test, and deploy software in modern tools and languages, such as Go, while continually cultivating your skills and collaborating with an agile, self-motivated team.
  • Experience automating, operating, and troubleshooting production systems; maintaining the availability and performance of storage products
  • Experience with Linux operating systems and familiarity with storage fundamentals
  • Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and service-oriented architectures
  • Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming languages
  • Any relevant domain experience such as Ceph, S3, block storage, containerization, software routing and load balancing
  • Experience leading discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees
Compensation Range: 
  • $139,000 - $174,000

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7567

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

Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.

Top Skills

Docker
Go
Kubernetes
Linux

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