Summary
Location
Seattle
Salary
$167k - $209k
Type
full-time
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About this role
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 designing and operating secure systems at scale
We are looking for an experienced, motivated, adaptable, empathetic automation-focused infrastructure engineer who is comfortable working remotely.
You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Foresight team, with a primary mission of “Help deliver GPU systems rapidly”. You will architect, build, support, and scale the team’s Provisioning Automation system. This system will be used to quickly and reliably provision hardware at DigitalOcean. This position will involve a high degree of leadership, ownership and autonomy - we will need to release this system quickly, and be prepared to scale it 10x. This is a fast-paced role with a lot of opportunity.
In addition to our primary mission, we have many other responsibilities. For example:
- We develop and support several infrastructure systems built in golang
- We develop and maintain several fleet visualization utilities, written in golang and react
- We write small system utilities or daemons that run on physical hosts, and report metrics about them
- We expose metrics to leadership for intelligent decisionmaking, including system firmware versions, provisioning success rates, etc.
- We help operational teams meet deadlines by keeping them informed of project progress
Our team has a big scope, but don’t let it deter you - we’re a group of kind folks. More than anything, we’re looking for someone empathetic, motivated, and driven to grow with us.
Also, we’re looking to expand our team’s StackStorm expertise. If you have StackStorm experience, that’s a bonus!
DigitalOcean’s Internal Culture and Tooling:
DigitalOcean teams communicate primarily via Slack. Foresight makes light use of Jira and GSuite. We strive to make our work-life balance comfortable, and aim to scope high-impact work appropriately so that everyone works at a healthy pace. You can expect to be on-call periodically once you are ready, but shouldn’t expect to be paged often.
DigitalOcean’s observability platform comprises VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Elasticsearch. Knowing any of these tools is a bonus, because every service at DO is generally expected to use this platform.
The Foresight team is an arm of the Hardware Lifecycle Engineering (HLE) organization. We are aimed at boosting productivity by enabling our engineers to rapidly and reliably deploy hardware in various configurations, managing the lifecycle from standup to decommission. The HLE group is made up of a diverse group of roughly 14 engineers located across the US, Canada, and Europe.
The Foresight team accounts for approximately 30% of the HLE group. Within Foresight, there are growth opportunities along several tracks (i.e. Tech Leader, Subject Matter Expert (SME), Project Management, Engineering Manager, etc).
What You’ll Be Doing:
As an engineer, you will spend your day-to-day on:
- Developing impactful, new and innovative systems that will help DigitalOcean scale
- Responding to provisioning failures
- Working to ensure that common provisioning failures do not recur (likely via automation)
- Collaborating with sibling teams to deliver on wider organizational goals
- Bringing new and actionable information to light via developing visualization tooling
- Having fun with an amazing and welcoming team 🙂
Here are some things we’ve spent our time on in the past few months:
- Developed a “provisioning-specific view” in our visualization interface
- Architected the MVP of an automated provisioning system
- Manually provisioned 300+ systems in order to meet aggressive deadlines (we’re not above manual work to hit our goals and feel the pain of our customers!)
- Developed firmware alerts for hardware system firmware being out-of-date
What We’ll Expect From You:
NB: If you don’t meet all of the expectations below, that’s okay! Submit an application, and be sure to include a cover letter telling us why you’d be a good fit for our team.
- Programming Languages: python, golang, shell
- Systems: Linux, Containers, StackStorm, Ansible
- Theory: Distributed Systems, Complex System Failure, Resilient Architecture, Quality Engineering
- Significant experience administering Linux servers
- Strong experience with Python, Ruby, or Golang
- Familiarity with git
- Familiarity with shell scripting
- Familiarity with continuous integration systems and concepts
- Familiarity with Github Actions is a plus
- An interest in contributing work upstream
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Comfort executing in an asynchronous remote environment
- Transparency, honesty, and openness to constructive feedback
- A desire to work with a respectful and inclusive team
Compensation Range:
- $167,000 - $209,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7456
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Other facts
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean simplifies cloud computing so businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With its mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean helps developers at startups and growing digital businesses rapidly build, deploy and scale, whether creating a digital presence or building digital products. DigitalOcean combines the power of simplicity, security, community and customer support so customers can spend less time managing their infrastructure and more time building innovative applications that drive business growth.
What you'll do
- You will architect, build, support, and scale the team’s Provisioning Automation system to rapidly deliver GPU systems. Additionally, you will collaborate with other teams and develop impactful systems to help DigitalOcean scale.
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