Senior Engineer I (Managed Kubernetes)

<div class="content-intro"><p>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. </p></div><p>We are looking for a Senior Engineer I who is passionate about Kubernetes and excited about the opportunity to take our managed Kubernetes solution (DOKS) to the next level.</p> <p>As a Senior Engineer I at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role is on the DOKS team that is in charge of DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes offering.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Develop the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="1">Contribute to our growing GPU offering to support scalable inference workloads at DigitalOcean.</li> <li>Develop back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.</li> <li>Design back-end services and author engineering design documents.</li> <li>Raise the bar for Operational Excellence.</li> <li>Independently lead projects.</li> <li>Navigate the complexity of distributed systems and operate them in production.</li> <li>Break the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.</li> <li>Run experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.</li> <li>Contribute to and maintain open-source projects, and collaborate with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.</li> <li>Find emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and show your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.</li> <li>Regularly interact with important customers to understand their needs in the product.</li> <li>Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architecture, implementation, design patterns, and processes while being able to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.</li> <li>Work on teams that operate across multiple time zones.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and Go.</li> <li>Experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale.</li> <li>Ability to drive complex projects from inception through completion.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Compensation Range:</strong></h2> <p>$139,200 - $174,000</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">*This is a remote role</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">#LI-Remote</span></em></p><div class="content-conclusion"><h2 class="p-rich_text_section"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean</strong></h2> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">We innovate with purpose. </strong>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.</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">We prioritize career development.</strong> 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 t ... (truncated, view full listing at source)