DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.

We want people who are passionate about designing and building tools to help your peers.

We are looking for someone who is familiar with our stack, understands our tools, is comfortable working remote, enjoys working in open source, and is excited about our mission. 

At DO, we believe in: Creating simple, yet powerful, foundations (with 💕) from which our community can build.

The Fleet Lifecycle Engineering team delivers on this mission by ensuring DigitalOcean’s hardware fleet is compliant, consistent and running the current supported OS/firmware.

Our Stack: Linux, K8s, Go, Docker, Python, Ansible, AWX, Stackstorm

Our Tools: Jira, Git/Github, Prometheus, Slack, Elasticsearch, GSuite, Concourse, GitHub Actions

Our Team: The person filling this position will report to the Engineering Manager of the Fleet Lifecycle Engineering team.  This team belongs to the Infrastructure Engineering organization, which is currently made up of a diverse team of mostly senior engineers located across the US, Canada, and Germany, and is supported by a Senior Director of Engineering. The team creates, deploys, manages, and supports the tooling necessary to manage and maintain the bare metal servers throughout the entirety of the business.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Help to bring support for new hardware into our automation systems

• Provide guidance to other internal users on how to best access/use our tooling
• Development of tooling and automation to reduce engineering toil
• Helping to increase the efficiency and reliability of our fleet operations
• Debugging when the inevitable goes wrong
• 5-20% of your time is spent on innovation, education, and/or open source

What we’ll expect from you:

Experience managing bare metal hardwareExperience developing, testing and shipping reliable code

• Experience troubleshooting OS/Firmware installation a plus
• Familiarity with automation and orchestration tools
• Experience operating and running redundant systems at scale
• A reliability focused mindset

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees. (The base salary range for this position is  based on relevant years of experience and skills. The salary range for this role is specific to candidates located within the U.S. and will vary for candidates outside the U.S..) (The salary range for this position is based on relevant years of experience and skills.) Employees may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees including grants of equity upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging our teams and employees to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs. We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your well-being. In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a competitive array of benefits. In the United States, these include health insurance, unlimited vacation, retirement benefits, a generous parental leave program, and additional resources to support employees’ overall well-being. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.
• 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.

*This is a remote role

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