Senior DBaaS Engineer — Remote, Scalable & Reliable DB

DigitalOcean; San Francisco (CA); Remoto; USD 167.000 - 209.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

DigitalOcean in the San Francisco area is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for the Managed Databases (DBaaS) organization. You will design and build scalable control-plane and infrastructure components for PostgreSQL/MySQL managed services, enabling reliable multi-region data workloads and AI-adjacent tasks.

The role emphasizes independent problem solving, hands-on architecture, mentoring engineers, on-call readiness, and driving cross-team design and reviews to raise the team's engineering

Competenze

• 8+ years of professional software engineering in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience diagnosing and solving high-concurrency production problems.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and/or MySQL internals.
• Strong concurrency, multi-region concerns, and performance optimization.
• Experience scaling data/AI workloads in cloud environments.
• Proven cross-team collaboration and mentorship track record.
• Growth mindset with focus on maintainability and architecture quality.

Mansioni

• Architect and implement DBaaS platform systems for scalability and reliability.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into concrete designs and workstreams.
• Own performance and resiliency through profiling and tuning.
• Improve automated failover, PITR, backups, and maintenance workflows.
• Scale control-plane/infrastructure for data-heavy workloads.
• Guide technical decisions and contribute design docs.
• Mentor engineers to raise coding and architectural standards.
• Operate and improve observability, failover, and on-call processes.

Conoscenze

Distributed systems

Cloud engineering

Mentorship

Performance optimization

Observability

Cross-team collaboration

Failure handling

Architecture design

Strumenti

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Linux

Descrizione del lavoro

DigitalOcean in the San Francisco area is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for the Managed Databases (DBaaS) organization. You will design and build scalable control-plane and infrastructure components for PostgreSQL/MySQL managed services, enabling reliable multi-region data workloads and AI-adjacent tasks.

The role emphasizes independent problem solving, hands-on architecture, mentoring engineers, on-call readiness, and driving cross-team design and reviews to raise the team's engineering