# Staff Software Engineer - Storage

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. Scope and Mission: Drive the design and operation of DigitalOcean's storage platform (block, object, and file/NFS), focusing on delivering durable, high-performance storage with best-in-class scale, performance, and predictability. Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across distributed storage systems, from the data plane to customer-facing APIs and experiences. Key Responsibilities: Architect and Build Design, develop, and ship storage capabilities across block, object, and file systems, spanning data placement, replication, snapshots, and observability. Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for durability, scalability, low latency, high throughput, and

- **Id**: 4079552
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/digitalocean-staff-software-engineer-storage>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T15:37:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T00:21:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6876
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible time off, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), AI Compute & Inference

## Company

- **Id**: 1115
- **Name**: DigitalOcean
- **Domain**: digitalocean.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/digitalocean>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 32
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.969
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 36
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **DigitalOcean** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T16:39:53Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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