Server Hardware Infrastructure Engineer
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.
We want people who are passionate about solving complex systems, storage, big data, and network problems using automation and software defined solutions.
We are looking for a senior engineer to help us identify, properly test and certify hardware components supporting our cloud infrastructure. This includes our base cloud server platforms, storage components, server network interface components, and some future-facing offerings we are working on! In this role, reporting to the Manager of Infrastructure Engineering, you’ll be working with architects, vendors, other internal engineers, capacity and performance planning teams and project management to ensure the hardware we are buying meets our requirements and will function properly at scale.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Owning the hardware certification efforts for server chassis, storage, and internal server components
- Procuring samples, testing in the lab, performance profiling, working with vendors to optimize
- Automating the testing process / framework where possible
- Establishing and contributing to a testing results repository
- Informing decisions around purchasing pipelines
What We'll Expect From You:
- A deep understanding of server components, interfaces, technologies, and roles (NICs, HBAs, storage technologies, memory, etc)
- A current awareness and aptitude for staying on top of industry technical trends from usage patterns in the field to manufacturing processes
- Practical experience performing industry-standard testing methods on server components
- An inclination and ability to automate testing wherever possible
- Able to perform cost modeling and other planning exercises
- You can work well with others and lead deep technical discussions, as well as the ability to communicate with others in relatable terms
- You’re organized, methodical, and appreciate order over chaos
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 take an all-expense-paid trip to our office 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: Infrastructure
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