Senior Software Engineer I-Storage
DigitalOcean · Posted Sep 23
Cloud infrastructure, virtual machines, managed database, and AI inference services
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About the role
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. The Storage Team supports the operations and development of object storage, block volumes, backups and image management, and this role on the Object Storage team is responsible for designing, developing, and operating the systems that power scalable, durable, and high-performance object storage for customers, working closely with distributed systems, storage protocols (e.g., S3), performance tuning, and observability to ensure enterprise-grade reliability and usability.
What you will do
- Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions
- Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
- Programming in Go and other languages
- 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
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 7+ years of Knowledge of Object or other distributed Storage and how to scale those solutions.
- Familiarity with object storage systems such as MinIO, Ceph, AWS S3, Scality, or similar.
- Cultivating your skills, learning languages, and teaming up with an agile, self-motivated g
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is an American cloud infrastructure provider and AI-native cloud platform built for developers, startups, and small-to-medium-sized businesses. The company provides simple, scalable virtual machines, managed databases, Kubernetes, and specialized inference engines designed to run modern application and agentic AI workloads.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 1001-5000 employees
- Founded
- 2011-06-24
- Location
- Broomfield, Colorado, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $174M raised
- 2013-07-01Seed$3.2M
- 2014-03-01Series A$37.2M
- 2014-12-01Debt Financing$50M
- 2015-07-01Series B$83M
- 2016-04-01Debt Financing$130M
- 2020-05-01Venture Round$50M
- 2021-03-24IPO$775.5M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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