Staff Software Engineer - Managed Databases (DBaa)

This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of the DBaaS team within the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) organisation in Engineering. This role will involve technical leadership to scale our database platform to meet the needs of our growing customer base. This position can be hired in India.

Responsibilities:

• Developing external customer-facing Managed Database products (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, Kafka, OpenSearch, MongoDB).
• Acting as a subject matter expert on MySQL, guiding performance optimisations and administrative issues.
• Developing and maintaining distributed systems in a Kubernetes environment that is globally distributed.
• Authoring and giving feedback on technical designs.
• Developing APIs with Go.
• Mentoring other engineers on best practices and performing code reviews.
• Providing the last line of support for DBaaS products.
• Collaborating with agile, self-managed teams of peers across other products.
• This includes engineers, product managers, designers, and more.
• Leveraging technologies such as Temporal, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Grafana and more. Integrating with many components across the DigitalOcean stack.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience working in fast-paced, agile product development environments.
• 4+ years of experience working as a subject-matter expert with MySQL databases.
• Strong knowledge of microservices using container workload engines and frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• A track record of building and maintaining large distributed systems.
• Experience with resilience engineering, fault tolerance, and failure domains as they relate to database backends.
• Strong spoken and written technical capabilities in developing and maintaining software.
• Experience with concurrency patterns in Go.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and frameworks.
• A strong background and exposure to different databases, both SQL and NoSQL paradigms.
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms, cloud-native database architectures and control plane design.
• Passion for collaborating directly with customers to discover their Jobs To Be Done, and developing simple, delightful solutions to solve those jobs.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate and demonstrate empathy with key stakeholders, both spoken and written.