Principal Storage Engineer

About DigitalOcean

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast‑paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

We are looking for an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future storage platforms at scale.

The Storage Team supports the operations and development of block volumes, backups and image management, and object storage. The ultimate goal of the Storage Team is to create a cohesive singular interface to hypervisor storage where storage class placement decisions are transparent to the hypervisor client and take advantage of the full range of available block storage classes to best satisfy customer needs. In addition they are responsible for providing Object and NFS based Storage to the customers as well. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to make impactful contributions to key software, contribute to the open source community, and debug interesting problems at cloudscale.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions
• Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
• Programming in Go and other languages
• Mentoring and collaborating with a motivated team of peers
• Consuming from and contributing to free / open source software communities
• Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding environment

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