Principal Storage Engineer

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Dive in and do the best work of your career rney 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.

• 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

• 15+ years of knowledge of Network based Block Storage, Object Storage and distributed File Systems and how to scale those solutions.
• Cultivating your skills, learning languages, and teaming up with an agile, self‑motivated group of peers to design, develop, test and deploy software in modern tools and languages such as Go.
• Strong architecture skills
• Sharing responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of storage products
• Collaborating with and contributing to free and open source software communities
• Solving interesting problems of complexity and scale in a technically rewarding environment
• Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming language
• Experience with gRPC, distributed data stores like Ceph, NVMe over TCP, and storage hardware in general

• $235,000 - $298,000
• This is a remote role

• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting‑edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
• We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high‑performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
  
  All employees have access to Linked In Learning’s 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
• We care about your well‑being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You 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 equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Digital Ocean is an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Digital Ocean is an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.