Company Overview:

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 building tools that enhance developer experience and improve developer productivity at DigitalOcean.

We are looking for a Platform Engineer with a passion for SDLC and Operations to help drive the productivity of DigitalOcean’s engineering teams. Reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager, Engineering Productivity, this role will help build, integrate, operationalize, and maintain developer tools, and support frameworks and infrastructure to enable teams to deploy confidently and easily.

This position will provide immense growth and learning opportunities within the rapidly-expanding Engineering Productivity and Platform Engineering domains through challenging projects that include streamlining the adoption of developer tooling, software lifecycle observability, and easier integrations of teams into pre-production environments.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Building, integrating, and automating tools and systems required by engineering teams that empower productivity through ease-of-use and self-service
• Increasing the observability of our platforms through data and the creation of new services tying critical measures to outcomes
• Developing with languages like GoLang, JavaScript / TypeScript, and Python
• Engaging with our engineering teams to identify opportunities for improvement
• Instrumenting telemetry and engaging with Observability, building visualizations that reveal the performance measures and opportunities of Engineering Teams’ software lifecycle
• Experimenting with various internal, open source, and commercial platform solutions based on the needs of our internal customers
• Active engagement with and providing first-class support to our Engineering Teams
• Participating in a rotating 24/7 on-call support schedule

What We’ll Expect From You: 

• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD pipelines, internal configuration management tools, GitHub / GitHub Enterprise, or equivalent 
• A strong interest and obsession with building quality software focused on enabling developers to iterate on their ideas
• Passion for shipping well-engineered and tested code and experience working full stack, whether it’s building or debugging
• Demonstrated expertise with one or more of the following languages: Golang (Go), JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Rust
• A natural curiosity to identify gaps and propose scalable, enterprise-grade solutions and opportunities for automation
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills
• Strong Opinions, Weakly Held
• Genuine interest in DigitalOcean as a company and excitement to use our products in your projects (if you haven’t already!)

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees. 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. 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

APPLY HERE