Senior Engineer I, Observability

<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><h2><strong>We want people who care about empowering their peers to understand their services.</strong></h2> <p>Observability Platforms is focused on creating visibility into DigitalOcean’s services and infrastructure. We design, build, and operate the internal logging, metrics, distributed tracing, error reporting, monitoring, and alerting platforms that are depended on to ensure good, reliable experiences for DigitalOcean’s customers. Through a mix of open source services and in-house developed software we seek to continuously improve the ability of DigitalOcean engineers and product managers to understand the behavior of their products and services in order to improve the experiences of our customers. </p> <h2><strong>What You'll Be Doing:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Integrating and operating open source distributed data systems such as OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics, Kafka, and Clickhouse</li> <li>Implementing features to both improve the operability of our services and help design and implement the next generations of metrics and logging at DigitalOcean.</li> <li>Guiding other engineers on how they can best utilize our systems to gain confidence that their services are performing as expected.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What We'll Expect From You:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Experience running and using distributed databases such as Opensearch, VictoriaMetrics, Clickhouse</li> <li>Experience with Kubernetes not just as an end user, but also an operator</li> <li>Experience writing software in Golang. Experience with the challenges of concurrency and distributed systems is a plus.</li> <li>Experience with DevOps tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and Github Actions (or other relevant CI/CD experience).</li> <li>An ability to work well as part of a geographically distributed team.</li> <li>Participation in a 24/7 on call rotation</li> <li>Someone who is motivated to learn, teach, grow, explore, and seek out areas we can improve</li> <li>Strong communication and customer service skills - we provide support to the internal users of the systems we design, build, and operate. </li> </ul> <h2><strong>Compensation Range: </strong></h2> <ul> <li>$139,000 - $174,000</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: 2026-7494</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 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 wor ... (truncated, view full listing at source)