Database Engineer
DigitalOcean’s software engineers develop next-generation cloud infrastructure technology that will change how millions of developers build, deploy, and scale web applications. Our mission is to simplify cloud infrastructure; this requires knowledge in many different fields, from distributed systems, virtualization, software defined networking, storage at scale, real-time data processing, and user interface design.
As a database engineer you’ll work with amazing teams across the organization, giving them a smooth runway with respect to their data needs. You’ll apply a variety of technologies from relational databases to message buses to key/value stores. Above all, you’ll be part of a fledgling team, contributing to the founding principles of data services and methods thereof, all to make developers’ lives easier.
What You’ll Be Doing:- Work closely with software, network, and platform engineering to ensure data systems are scalable, resilient, and predictable.
- Track, monitor, and visualize performance of the databases at the core of our infrastructure.
- Evaluate and qualify databases, message queues, consensus systems for use in DigitalOcean’s cloud.
- Build a deep understanding of how our systems operate under ideal conditions as well as failure cases and how to react to them.
- Contribute to tooling and incident response procedures to enable and empower our technical operations team.
- Offer data structure / service guidance based on best practices
- Experience building large, replicated MySQL setups is required.
- Expertise with at least two of the following data systems: MySQL, HBase, PostgreSQL, Zookeeper, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Redis.
- Experience optimizing complex queries and designing large schemas.
- Experience with configuration management.
- Fundamental understanding of data storage systems on both the practical and academic/data structure side.
- Familiarity with monitoring and debugging large, global, distributed systems is a plus.
- Familiarity with one of the following languages: Ruby, Python, Go, C/C++, or Java. C/C++, Java, and Go is a plus.
- We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and coolest people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. Archery classes, DJ lessons, and office pie fights are a thing. 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 two great office spaces located in the heart of SoHo NYC and in Cambridge, MA, offering 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 take an all-expense-paid trip to our HQ 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 HQ.
- 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.