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Principal Storage EngineerDigitalOcean • San Francisco, CA, United States
Principal Storage Engineer

Principal Storage Engineer

DigitalOcean • San Francisco, CA, United States
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About DigitalOcean

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 are looking for an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future storage platforms at scale.

The Storage Team supports the operations and development of block volumes, backups and image management, and object storage. The ultimate goal of the Storage Team is to create a cohesive singular interface to hypervisor storage where storage class placement decisions are transparent to the hypervisor client and take advantage of the full range of available block storage classes to best satisfy customer needs. In addition they are responsible for providing Object and NFS based Storage to the customers as well. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to make impactful contributions to key software, contribute to the open source community, and debug interesting problems at cloudscale.

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
  • Mentoring and 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

  • 15+ years of knowledge of network‑based block storage, object storage and distributed file systems and how to scale those solutions.
  • Cultivating your skills, learning languages, and teaming up with an agile, self‑motivated group of peers to design, develop, test and deploy software in modern tools and languages such as Go.
  • Strong architecture skills
  • Sharing responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of storage products
  • Collaborating with and contributing to free and open source software communities
  • Solving complex problems of scale in a technically rewarding environment
  • Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming language
  • Bonus : Experience with gRPC, distributed data stores like Ceph, NVMe over TCP, and storage hardware in general

    • Compensation Range

  • $235,000 - $298,000
  • This is a remote role

    • 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, proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
  • We prioritize career development. You’ll work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry and have access to a wealth of learning resources.
  • We care about your well‑being. We provide a competitive array of benefits, including flexible time off and support programs.
  • We reward our employees. In addition to base salary there may be a bonus and equity compensation, including stock purchase participation.
  • DigitalOcean is an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

    • Seniority level

  • Mid‑Senior level

    • Employment type

  • Full‑time

    • Job function

  • Information Technology

    • Industries

  • Internet Publishing

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