Senior Software Engineer II (Storage)

DigitalOcean
Denver$167k – $209kPosted 24 February 2026

Job Description

<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 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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. </p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Be Doing:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions</li> <li>Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems</li> <li>Programming in Go and other languages</li> <li>Collaborating with a motivated team of peers</li> <li>Consuming from and contributing to free/open source software communities</li> <li>Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding environment</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>Experience automating, operating, and troubleshooting production systems; maintaining the availability and performance of storage products</li> <li>Experience with Linux operating systems and familiarity with storage fundamentals</li> <li>Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and service-oriented architectures</li> <li>Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming languages</li> <li>Any relevant domain experience such as Ceph, S3, block storage, containerization, software routing and load balancing</li> <li>Experience leading discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Compensation Range: </strong></h2> <ul> <li>$167,000 - $209,000</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">*This is a remote role</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">JR: 2026-7465</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">#LI-Remote</span></em></span></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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)