Senior Engineer: Images
Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?
Based in New York and Cambridge, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing for every developer. We are working on solving some of the most challenging and interesting technology projects around, on a scale unmatched by few companies.
We want people who are passionate about creating products that you and your peers would love.
As a Software Engineer for Images, you will import, troubleshoot and monitor OS images and 1-Click Applications on the DigitalOcean cloud. You will be responsible also for making sure the OS images are up to date with the latest updates including security updates, as well as building and maintaining application images. You will need to be familiar with different Linux flavors and the many applications we deploy on top of that.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Importing and maintaining OS images and how they interact with the DigitalOcean Cloud.
- Working with upstream open source projects to ensure images run on DigitalOcean.
- Building and maintaining one click applications.
- Keeping images up to date with latest updates including security updates.
- Building and maintaining a build and test system for DigitalOcean images.
What We Expect You To Know:
- Expertise in Ubuntu with a deep understand of Linux.
- Expertise in the Go, Python, and Bash.
- Deep understanding and knowledge of virtualization and Virtual Machines image management (Such as Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware)
- Expertise in Continuous Integration systems and automated testing. Preference for Jenkins and Concourse.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills for Linux in a Cloud environment.
Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:
- 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 a great office space located in the heart of SoHo NYC 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 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.