Have you ever wondered what happens inside the cloud?

Based in New York, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. We believe that today’s entrepreneurs are changing the world through software. Our mission is to empower these entrepreneurs by bringing modern app development within reach for any developer, anywhere in the world.

The Finance team oversees the company's financial well-being while supporting operational and business planning in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. We work hard to ensure growth is accurately projected and managed and that our financial results are properly accounted for. We provide financial analysis to determine key operational decisions within a rapidly growing organization. We only hire the best to these teams, and your work will have a huge impact on the future success of this rapidly growing company.

We want people who are passionate about creating products that you and your peers would love.

 As an engineer on the Network Product team, you will write cloud security and monitoring software, design and develop APIs that are used by external and internal customers. Our team is passionate about quality, performance and reliability of delivered products.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead the design, implementation, test and optimization of new services and tools that run at scale and solve performance and monitoring problems.
• Work with other teams within the vertical and across the company to build the next generation of products and services for our developers community.
• Support existing products and contribute creative solutions to the pain points.
• Help improve our toolings and process to ship robust and mission-critical parts of the ecosystem.
• Establish best practices for development and architecture
• Use technologies and tools such as: Go, Consul, Kafka, SQL, Chef, Git, Jira, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Lightstep, Docker, Kubernetes and what not?

What We'll Expect From You:

• Significant experience as a software architect and lead developer in building scalable, real-time and distributed systems
• Significant experience with Go, C, C++ or Java programming languages and unit tests
• Significant experience designing and developing high performance systems
• Domain knowledge of Networking stack
• Experience designing and developing full-stack applications with databases and API
• Experience with leading work across multiple teams to build API contracts
• Experience with cloud development, containerization and virtualization
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)
• Record of creating sweeping improvements in stability, performance and scalability across major business-critical systems
• Record of automating the steps necessary to deliver high-quality, well-tested, and production-ready software from initial development to ongoing, scalable, production operation.
• Bonus: You have used gRPC to build robust distributed and high-demand systems
• Bonus: Relevant experience with other languages such as Ruby, Python, Perl or Scala.
• Bonus: Experience with Firewall and Network Monitoring systems development

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
• We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
• We care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
• We invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We want you to love where you work. We have great office spaces located in the heart of SoHo NYC and Cambridge, and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to onboard in-office and take an all-expenses paid trip to our annual company offsite, Shark Week, to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in office.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Department: Engineering

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