Senior DBaaS Engineer II – Managed Databases (Remote)

DigitalOcean; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 167,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role

Competitive benefits

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II for its Managed Databases (DBaaS) engineering group. You will design scalable control-plane and infrastructure components, mentor engineers, and own performance and reliability outcomes for production workloads including PostgreSQL and MySQL environments.

In this remote role, you will collaborate across teams to turn ambiguous requirements into concrete architectures, drive high‑impact initiatives, and elevate platform capabilities for

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or data-plane/control-plane infrastructure.
• Proven track record diagnosing and solving complex, high-concurrency engineering problems in production cloud environments.
• Working knowledge of relational database engine internals—specifically PostgreSQL and/or MySQL—including query performance, replication, and scale (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement DBaaS platform systems: Design and build scalable control-plane and infrastructure components that improve throughput, multi-region operability, and reliability for managed database workloads.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into deliverable architecture: Deconstruct customer and system needs into clear technical designs and workstreams that drive predictable delivery with product and engineering partners.
• Own performance and resiliency outcomes on your services: Improve resource utilization, fault tolerance, and availability—using profiling and targeted changes against I/O, CPU, and network bottlenecks under real production load.
• Strengthen lifecycle capabilities: Ship improvements to automated failover, continuous backups, point-in-time recovery (PITR), and maintenance workflows so clusters handle higher data volumes and tighter SLAs.
• Scale for data-heavy and AI-adjacent demand: Expand and harden control-plane and infrastructure pieces that support compute-heavy and high-concurrency customer workloads.
• Raise the team engineering bar: Guide technical decisions for engineers on the squad through design and code reviews; contribute clear design docs for the initiatives you lead.
• Mentor team members: Coach engineers through technical guidance, architectural reviews, and code-quality standards to accelerate growth and execution velocity.
• Operate what you build: Establish observability, failover, and recovery practices; participate in on-call; turn incident learnings into durable platform improvements.

Skills

Distributed systems

SaaS/PaaS experience

Production cloud

PostgreSQL/MySQL knowledge

Mentoring engineers

Architecture

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II for its Managed Databases (DBaaS) engineering group. You will design scalable control-plane and infrastructure components, mentor engineers, and own performance and reliability outcomes for production workloads including PostgreSQL and MySQL environments.

In this remote role, you will collaborate across teams to turn ambiguous requirements into concrete architectures, drive high‑impact initiatives, and elevate platform capabilities for