Senior Engineer I, Observability

DigitalOcean • San Francisco, CA

1d • Remote

About The Position

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 want people who care about empowering their peers to understand their services. 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.

Requirements

• Experience running and using distributed databases such as Opensearch, VictoriaMetrics, Clickhouse
• Experience with Kubernetes not just as an end user, but also an operator
• Experience writing software in Golang.
• Experience with DevOps tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and Github Actions (or other relevant CI/CD experience).
• An ability to work well as part of a geographically distributed team.
• Participation in a 24/7 on call rotation
• Someone who is motivated to learn, teach, grow, explore, and seek out areas we can improve
• Strong communication and customer service skills - we provide support to the internal users of the systems we design, build, and operate.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with the challenges of concurrency and distributed systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Integrating and operating open source distributed data systems such as OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics, Kafka, and Clickhouse
• Implementing features to both improve the operability of our services and help design and implement the next generations of metrics and logging at DigitalOcean.
• Guiding other engineers on how they can best utilize our systems to gain confidence that their services are performing as expected.

Benefits

• We innovate with purpose.
• We prioritize career development.
• We care about your well-being.
• We reward our employees.
• Employee Assistance Program
• Local Employee Meetups
• flexible time off policy
• reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
• equity compensation
• Employee Stock Purchase Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed