Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid
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Skills: MySQL, Go, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, System Design
Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
$215k–$269k/yr
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Skills: Product Strategy, Cloud Infrastructure, Agentic AI, Developer Experience, API Design
Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
$234k–$292k/yr
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Skills: Data Center Operations, Strategic Leadership, Vendor Management, SLA Management, Incident Response
Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
$154k–$192k/yr
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Skills: Data Center Deployment, Infrastructure Engineering, Linux OS, Bash Scripting, Network Connectivity
Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
$262k–$327k/yr
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Skills: Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Compute Systems, Agentic AI Infrastructure, Virtualization Platforms, Runtime Environments
Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
$169k–$211k/yr
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Skills: Network Security Architecture, Threat Modeling, Security Automation, Infrastructure As Code, BGP
Denver, Colorado, United States · Remote OK
$169k–$211k/yr
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote OK
$169k–$211k/yr
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Skills: Network Security Architecture, BGP, OSPF, DDoS Mitigation, Python
Austin, Texas, United States · Remote OK
$169k–$211k/yr
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San Francisco, California, United States · Remote OK
$169k–$211k/yr
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Skills: Network Security Engineering, Network Penetration Testing, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS
Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
$218k–$273k/yr
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Skills: Product Management, Compute Infrastructure, CPU Architecture, Virtualization, Containerization
Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
$140k–$175k/yr
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Skills: Kernel Security, Threat Modeling, Virtualization Stack, Systems Architecture, Network Architecture
Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote OK
$140k–$175k/yr
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Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
$218k–$273k/yr
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Skills: Product Strategy, Cloud Infrastructure, Agentic AI Systems, Developer Platforms, API Design
Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
$217k–$271k/yr
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Skills: Reinforcement Learning, Reward Modeling, Preference Optimization, LLMs, GenAI
Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
$217k–$271k/yr
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Skills: AI/ML Engineering, Agentic AI, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Python, Production Systems Language
Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
$160k–$195k/yr
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Skills: Sales Enablement, Sales Training, One-on-one Coaching, Content Creation, Onboarding Program Design
Denver, Colorado, United States · Remote OK
$160k–$195k/yr
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote OK
$160k–$195k/yr
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Austin, Texas, United States · Remote OK
$160k–$195k/yr
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Lead the design and scaling of Managed Database products, specifically focusing on MySQL performance and resilience. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers while managing the end-to-end lifecycle of DBaaS services.
Requires a seasoned engineer with deep subject matter expertise in MySQL and experience developing distributed systems in Kubernetes using Go. Must be capable of owning technical solutions from design to production and influencing operational excellence.
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
We want people who are passionate about building features that you and your peers will loveDigitalOcean’s Managed Databases.Team builds and runs the services and infrastructure for the DigitalOcean DBaaS product. We handle the full life cycle of Managed Databases from the APIs which let users create and manage their databases to software that automates the running, upgrading, and health of databases.We are looking for a seasoned engineer to work on a small team focused on Database-as-a-Service products.This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of the DBaaS team within the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) organization in Engineering. This role will involve technical leadership to scale our database platform to meet the needs of our growing customer base. This position is able to be hired in India - Hyderabad or Bangalore.
Developing external customer-facing Managed Database products (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, Kafka, OpenSearch, MongoDB).Acting as a subject matter expert on MySQL, providing guidance on performance optimizations and administrative issues.Design scalable and resilient backend services for database lifecycle managementOwn end-to-end technical solutions from design to productionProvide technical leadership across multiple projects and teamsMentor and guide mid-level and junior engineersInfluence best practices in system design, reliability, and operational excellenceImprove system scalability, performance, availability, and cost efficiencyDeveloping and maintaining distributed systems in a Kubernetes environment that is globally distributedAuthoring and giving feedback on technical designs.Developing APIs with Go.Mentoring other engineers on best practices and performing code reviews.Providing the last-line of support for DBaaS products.Collaborating with agile, self-managed teams of peers across other products. This includes engineers, product managers, designers, and more.Leveraging technologies such as Temporal, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Grafana and more.Integrating with many components across the DigitalOcean stack.
Developing external customer-facing Managed Database products (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, Kafka, OpenSearch, MongoDB).Acting as a subject matter expert on MySQL, providing guidance on performance optimizations and administrative issues.Design scalable and resilient backend services for database lifecycle managementOwn end-to-end technical solutions from design to productionProvide technical leadership across multiple projects and teamsMentor and guide mid-level and junior engineersInfluence best practices in system design, reliability, and operational excellenceImprove system scalability, performance, availability, and cost efficiencyDeveloping and maintaining distributed systems in a Kubernetes environment that is globally distributed.
Authoring and giving feedback on technical designs.Developing APIs with Go.Mentoring other engineers on best practices and performing code reviews.Providing the last-line of support for DBaaS products.Collaborating with agile, self-managed teams of peers across other products. This includes engineers, product managers, designers, and more.Leveraging technologies such as Temporal, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Grafana and more.Integrating with many components across the DigitalOcean stack.
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DigitalOcean is the AI-Native Cloud purpose-built for the inference and agentic era. Its five-layer integrated platform—spanning GPU and CPU infrastructure, core cloud, inference, data, and managed agent orchestration—is open throughout with no vendor lock-in, giving builders everything they need to start fast, scale production AI workloads, and improve unit economics. More than 650,000 customers and millions of developers globally trust DigitalOcean to build, ship, and scale their applications.
Offices: 105 Edgeview Dr, Broomfield, Colorado 80021, US
AI-Native Cloud. ☁️
DigitalOcean is the AI-Native Cloud purpose-built for the inference and agentic era. Its five-layer integrated platform—spanning GPU and CPU infrastructure, core cloud, inference, data, and managed agent orchestration—is open throughout with no vendor lock-in, giving builders everything they need to start fast, scale production AI workloads, and improve unit economics. More than 650,000 customers and millions of developers globally trust DigitalOcean to build, ship, and scale their applications.
Offices: 105 Edgeview Dr, Broomfield, Colorado 80021, US
