Senior Software Engineer II (Kubernetes)

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.

We want people who are passionate about helping developers build, deploy, and bring their idea to life.

DigitalOcean’s product engineering organization enables customers to easily build highly scalable creative applications and services on our cloud platform.  We serve a passionate developer community that has grown to love our intuitive simple design, easily configurable infrastructure, and intuitive tutorials helping craft and run their software in the cloud.

As an engineer on the DigitalOcean Kubernetes team, you will be responsible for continuing to build the DigitalOcean Kubernetes product. You’ll be a member of a global team building a Kubernetes platform to enable developers to easily deploy and orchestrate their containerized workloads.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Developing the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
• Collaborating to build intuitive, delightful experiences for developers as they engage with DigitalOcean.
• Developing back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
• Designing back-end services and authoring engineering design documents.
• Breaking the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
• Independently lead projects 
• Running experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
• Contributing to and maintaining open-source projects, and collaborating with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
• Finding emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and showing your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes. 
• Ability to navigate the complexity of distributed systems to operate them in production.
• Regular interactions with important customers to understand their needs in the product
• Contributing meaningfully to discussions on architectures, implementations, design patterns, and processes with the ability to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
• Experience working on teams that operate across multiple time zones.

What We’ll Expect From You:

• Exemplify DigitalOcean values.
• Experience working with complex distributed systems
• Experience with Go, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Language: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, ship, maintain, and operate production-ready code and systems. (Go experience is a requirement, 3 years + is desired).
• Software engineering experience 7 years+
• Experience hosting Kubernetes clusters at scale
• Experience with API development and interactions with data stores such as MySQL.
• Experience with custom Kubernetes controllers and CRDs
• Passion for shipping well-engineered and tested code.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
• A strong interest and obsession with building quality software focused on enabling developers to iterate on their ideas.
• A self learner mentality
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
• Experience working within a microservice architecture, with knowledge of both asynchronous, event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests.
• Be comfortable working in a fast paced engineering organization
• Highly desirable skills/experience include:
• Network engineering experience (cilium experience preferred)
• Experience integrating AI automation into a managed Kubernetes platform
• CI/CD experience with a focus on quality and developer velocity
• Experience writing technical blog posts/articles for the community
• Genuine interest in DigitalOcean as a company and excitement to use our products in your projects (if you haven’t already!)

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We are proud to work here. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud computing 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