Senior Software Engineer I - Mongo/Aiven KTLO

DigitalOcean, Inc.; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,200,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean, Bengaluru, India, is seeking a Technical Engineering Manager to guide a mixed-skill team building customer and platform engineering products. You will drive the control plane for a cloud DBaaS, orchestrate workflows, and align with long-term tech strategy while ensuring reliable operations and proactive customer signals.

You’ll lead deployment pipelines, scale distributed systems, and mentor engineers in a fast-paced, hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience delivering complex cloud-scale distributed systems, particularly in data and OLTP databases.
• Golang and gRPC experience.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and deployment pipelines including Github Actions.
• Preferred: Experience with orchestration engines such as Temporal.
• Preferred: Operation experience with MongoDB.
• Systems thinking; strong opinions, weakly held.

Responsibilities

• Develop the control plane for a cloud DBaaS platform.
• Build highly scalable distributed systems at scale.
• Build and operate specific database engine controls to provision, destroy, scale, and backup clusters.
• Build telemetry and logging to provide proactive signals and alerts to engineering teams and customers.
• Orchestrate complex workflows for various database engines.
• Automate and create playbooks for operations related to owning and running database engines; incl. upgrades and patches.
• Stay current with cloud-native trends to inform long-term strategy.

Skills

Golang

gRPC

Kubernetes

Github Actions

Temporal

MongoDB

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Job description

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 want people who are passionate about building features that you and your peers will love.DigitalOcean is welcoming a new technical engineering manager to support our engineers, grow our culture, and lead the team developing our customer and platform engineering product offerings. This person will be responsible for guiding the development of a mixed-skill engineering team, facilitating communications, providing clarity of vision and priority, and empowering the team to create creative solutions for our DigitalOcean customers.
The teams mission is to simplify the customer and developer experience so they can focus on building and operating their applications to Get Growing.We are excited to meet candidates who share our passions for technology solutions, healthy services, and being loving service providers, team members, and leaders.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop the control plane for a cloud DBaaS platform
• Build highly scalable distributed systems at scale
• Build and operate specific database engine controls to provision, destroy, scale, and backup clusters
• Build world class telemetry and logging to provide proactive signals and alerts to both engineering teams and customers if something isn’t right
• Orchestrate complex workflows for various database engines
• Automate and create playbooks for operations related to owning and running database engines that may include minor or major upgrades, security patching, and other maintenance events
• Stay current with trends in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes operators, control plane patterns, and the DBaaS competitive landscape to inform long-term technical strategy.

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience delivering complex cloud-scale distributed systems, particularly in data and OLTP databases.
• Golang and gRPC experience
• Strong knowledge of K8s and deployment pipelines including Github Actions
• Preferred: Experience with orchestration engines such as Temporal
• Preferred: Operation experience with MongoDB
• Systems thinking.
• Strong opinions, weakly held.

*This job is located in Bengaluru, India

JR: 2026-7982

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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean

• 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. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
• 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 LinkedIn 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.
• DigitalOcean 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.

Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.