Senior DBaaS Platform Engineer (Remote)

DigitalOcean; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 167,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Bonus potential

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II for the Managed Databases (DBaaS) engineering organization. You will design and build scalable control‑plane and infrastructure components, drive architecture from ambiguous requirements, and own performance and reliability in a production cloud environment.

You’ll mentor engineers, lead cross‑team technical projects, and contribute to observability, failover, backup, and maintenance workflows to support data‑heavy workloads and AI-adjacent

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating large‑scale distributed systems or data‑plane/control‑plane infrastructure (SaaS/PaaS or equivalent).
• Production depth: diagnosing and solving complex, high‑concurrency engineering problems in production cloud environments.
• Database platform fluency: PostgreSQL and/or MySQL knowledge including performance, replication, and scale.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement DBaaS platform systems for scalable control‑plane and infrastructure components.
• Translate ambiguous requirements into clear designs and workstreams with product and engineering partners.
• Own performance, resiliency, and reliability improvements under production load.

Skills

8+ years experience

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL/MySQL knowledge

Linux/Cloud environments

Performance optimization

Cross-team collaboration

Mentorship

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II for the Managed Databases (DBaaS) engineering organization. You will design and build scalable control‑plane and infrastructure components, drive architecture from ambiguous requirements, and own performance and reliability in a production cloud environment.

You’ll mentor engineers, lead cross‑team technical projects, and contribute to observability, failover, backup, and maintenance workflows to support data‑heavy workloads and AI-adjacent