Senior Software Engineer II, DBaaS Platform

LinuxCareers; United States; On-site; USD 167,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II for the Managed Databases engineering org. This role focuses on building and operating fully managed PostgreSQL and MySQL services, with responsibility for distributed control planes and production reliability across large-scale cloud systems.

You will design scalable control-plane components, translate customer requirements into technical designs, and mentor engineers while contributing to on-call rotations and observability practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering in large-scale distributed systems or data-plane/control-plane infra in SaaS/PaaS.
• Proven ability to diagnose high-concurrency production issues in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, failure modes, multi-region concerns, and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable control-plane and infrastructure components for managed database workloads.
• Translate requirements into designs and drive delivery across DBaaS and platform boundaries.
• Improve resource utilization, fault tolerance, and availability under production load.

Skills

Distributed systems

SaaS/PaaS

Concurrency

PostgreSQL/MySQL internals

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Linux/cloud environments

Observability

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II for the Managed Databases engineering org. This role focuses on building and operating fully managed PostgreSQL and MySQL services, with responsibility for distributed control planes and production reliability across large-scale cloud systems.

You will design scalable control-plane components, translate customer requirements into technical designs, and mentor engineers while contributing to on-call rotations and observability practices.