Staff Software Engineer (Databases)

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 you and your peers will love DigitalOcean’s Managed Databases Team builds and runs the services and infrastructure for the DigitalOcean DBaaS product . We handle the full life cycle of Managed Databases from the APIs which let users create and manage their databases to software that automates the running, upgrading, and health of databases.We are looking for a seasoned engineer to work on a small team focused on Database-as-a-Service products. This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of the DBaaS team within the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) organization in Engineering. This role will involve technical leadership to scale our database platform to meet the needs of our growing customer base. This position is able to be hired in India - Hyderabad or Bangalore. What You’ll Do: Developing external customer-facing Managed Database products (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, Kafka, OpenSearch, MongoDB). Acting as a subject matter expert on MySQL, providing guidance on performance optimizations and administrative issues. Design scalable and resilient backend services for database lifecycle management Own end-to-end technical solutions from design to production Provide technical leadership across multiple projects and teams Mentor and guide mid-level and junior engineers Influence best practices in system design, reliability, and operational excellence Improve system scalability, performance, availability, and cost efficiency Developing and maintaining distributed systems in a Kubernetes environment that is globally distributed. Authoring and giving feedback on technical designs. Developing APIs with Go. Mentoring other engineers on best practices and performing code reviews. Providing the last-line of support for DBaaS products. Collaborating with agile, self-managed teams of peers across other products. This includes engineers, product managers, designers, and more. Leveraging technologies such as Temporal, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Grafana and more. Integrating with many components across the DigitalOcean stack. What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean: 14+ years of experience working in fast-paced, agile product development environments. 5+ years of experience working as a subject-matter expert with MySQL databases. Strong knowledge of microservices using container workload engines and frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes. A track record of building and maintaining large distributed systems. Experience with resilience engineering, fault tolerance, and failure domains as they relate to database backends. Strong spoken and written technical capabilities in developing and maintaining software. Experience with concurrency patterns in Go. Experience with CI/CD pipelines and frameworks. A strong background and exposure to different databases, both SQL and NoSQL paradigms. Deep understanding of cloud platforms, cloud-native database architectures and control plane design. Experience building APIs (REST, gRPC) and service-oriented architectures Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers Passion for collaborating directly with customers to discover their Jobs To Be Done, and developing simple delightful solutions to solve those jobs. Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate and demonstrate empathy with key stakeholders, both spoken and written. *This job is located in Hyderabad, India #LI-Hybrid ... (truncated, view full listing at source)