Staff Software Engineer - MySQL

Responsibilities:

• Developing external customer-facing managed database products (MySQL, PostgreSQL, caching, Kafka, OpenSearch, and MongoDB).
• Acting as a subject matter expert on MySQL, providing guidance on performance optimisations and administrative issues.
• Design scalable and resilient backend services for database lifecycle management.
• Own end-to-end technical solutions from design to production.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple projects and teams.
• Mentor and guide mid-level and junior engineers.
• Influence best practices in system design, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Improve system scalability, performance, availability, and cost efficiency.
• 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.