Senior Software Engineer I-Managed Databases (DBaaS)
DigitalOcean2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Develop external customer-facing Managed Database products across MySQL, PostgreSQL, caching, Kafka, OpenSearch, and MongoDB.
- Act as a MySQL subject-matter expert and provide guidance on performance optimization and database administration.
- Develop and maintain globally distributed systems in a Kubernetes environment.
- Develop APIs with Go and use technologies including Temporal, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, and Grafana.
- Author and review technical designs, perform code reviews, and mentor other engineers.
- Provide last-line support for DBaaS products and collaborate with engineering, product, and design teams.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in fast-paced product development environments.
- At least 4 years of experience as a MySQL subject-matter expert.
- Strong knowledge of microservices using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience building and maintaining large distributed systems, including resilience engineering, fault tolerance, and database failure domains.
- Strong software development capabilities and experience with concurrency patterns in Go.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and frameworks.
- Strong background with SQL and NoSQL databases, cloud platforms, cloud-native database architectures, and control plane design.
- Strong spoken and written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience collaborating directly with customers to identify needs and develop solutions.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Bengaluru, India.
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning with more than 10,000 courses.
- Employee Assistance Program, local employee meetups, and flexible time off.
- Eligible employees may receive equity grants and participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program.
Tech Stack
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is the AI-Native Cloud purpose-built for the inference and agentic era. Its five-layer integrated platform—spanning GPU and CPU infrastructure, core cloud, inference, data, and managed agent orchestration—is open throughout with no vendor lock-in, giving builders everything they need to start fast, scale production AI workloads, and improve unit economics. More than 650,000 customers and millions of developers globally trust DigitalOcean to build, ship, and scale their applications.