Principal Engineer (PaaS Team)
@ DigitalOcean

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
On Site
Posted 18 days ago

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Overview

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Join a strong community of top talent building the simplest scalable cloud.

Role Responsibilities

As a Principal Engineer on the PaaS team, you will architect systems spanning our global infrastructure network and design next generation cloud services that ease developers' lives. Your responsibilities include:

  • Drive architecture for complex products through innovative solutions.
  • Design and architect large scale systems and infrastructure.
  • Mentor and coach engineering team members.
  • Ship multiple large services and facilitate cross-team work.
  • Set short to medium-term strategic technical directions.

Technologies & Tools

Technologies used include Go, Perl, Libvirt, Virtio, KVM, Open vSwitch, GRPC, MySQL, Chef, Git, Kubernetes, and Containers.

Qualifications

  • 11+ years of software development experience.
  • Expertise in languages such as Go, Perl, Ruby, Python, C/C++, or Java.
  • Experience in large scale distributed systems programming.
  • Proven mentorship and cross-team collaboration skills.
  • Experience with configuration management systems like Chef, Ansible, or Puppet.
  • Strong understanding of virtualization and container technologies.

Why Work at DigitalOcean

You will be part of a cutting-edge technology company with high career growth, a collaborative environment, competitive benefits, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Key skills/competency

Principal Engineer (PaaS Team): architecture, distributed systems, mentoring, cloud, scalability, Go, Kubernetes, virtualization, infrastructure, strategic

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How to Get Hired at DigitalOcean

🎯 Tips for Getting Hired

  • Research DigitalOcean's culture: Understand their mission and community values.
  • Customize your resume: Highlight relevant large scale projects and mentoring experiences.
  • Emphasize technical depth: Showcase skills in distributed systems and cloud technologies.
  • Prepare for behavioral interviews: Be ready to discuss leadership and collaborative examples.

📝 Interview Preparation Advice

Technical Preparation

Review distributed systems design principles.
Practice coding in Go and related languages.
Study cloud architecture and containerization.
Understand virtualization and configuration management.

Behavioral Questions

Prepare leadership experience examples.
Practice conflict resolution scenarios.
Highlight teamwork and mentoring instances.
Discuss strategic decision-making moments.

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