Remote Senior Software Engineer, DBaaS Platform & Reliability

DigitalOcean

United States

Remote

USD 167,000 - 209,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to join the managed databases team. You will design and build scalable control-plane and infrastructure components to support PostgreSQL, MySQL, and related services.

You will translate ambiguous requirements into concrete architecture, lead cross-team projects, own performance and reliability, and mentor engineers to raise the team’s technical bar. This remote IC4 role offers a competitive range and opportunities to advance cloud and AI

Qualifications

8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Working knowledge of relational database engines (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
Strong collaboration and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

Architect and implement DBaaS platform systems for scalable control-plane infrastructure.
Deconstruct customer and system needs into clear technical designs and workstreams.
Own performance, resilience, and reliability of services under production load.
Strengthen lifecycle capabilities (backups, PITR, maintenance workflows).
Scale for data-heavy and AI workloads with concurrent access.