Principal Engineer (PaaS Team)

@ DigitalOcean

Job Overview

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Join a strong community of top talent passionate about building the simplest scalable cloud. As a Principal Engineer (PaaS Team), you will architect systems spanning global infrastructure and define the next generation of cloud services.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Drive architecture for complex products by identifying limitations and devising solutions.
• Design and architect large scale systems.
• Mentor and coach junior members of the engineering organization.
• Ship multiple large services and major infrastructure components.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration to multiply overall effectiveness.
• Set strategic technical direction with a 6-12 month vision.

Technologies We Use

Go, Perl, Libvirt, Virtio, KVM, Open vSwitch, GRPC, MySQL, Chef, Git, Kubernetes, Containers.

What We Expect From You

• 11+ years of software development experience.
• Expertise in building software used by thousands of users.
• Proficiency in one or more languages: Go, Perl, Ruby, Python, C/C++, Java.
• Experience with large scale distributed systems programming.
• Commitment to mentoring and coaching your team.
• Demonstrated improvements in system stability, performance, and scalability.
• Experience with configuration management systems like Chef, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Deep understanding of virtualization technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Containers is a plus.

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean

You’ll join a cutting-edge, high-performance organization that values career development and well-being. Enjoy competitive benefits, continuous learning opportunities, and flexible time off. DigitalOcean empowers you to make a profound difference for developers globally.

Key Skills/Competency

• Cloud Architecture
• Distributed Systems
• Software Development
• Mentoring
• System Design
• Virtualization
• Containerization
• Kubernetes
• Configuration Management
• Strategic Planning