Senior Engineer II, App Platform

About the position

We want people who are passionate about creating products that you and your peers would love. As a Senior Engineer on the Application Platform team, the software you write will power applications for over a million users around the globe. You will define the next generation of cloud services, making developers' lives (both inside DO and in the 'wild') easier by building new services that improve our efficiency and also provide important new features for our customers. If your passion is building products customers rely on every day, this is the right job for you.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for our Application Platform offering.
• Work with our product teams to build the next generation of products and services for our developers community.
• Drive architecture for complex systems by determining current limitations and working with the team to come up with solutions.
• Contribute operational reliability as a member of the product on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Experience as a software engineer, developer, or programmer building software used by 1000s of users.
• Proficiency in software development methodologies.
• Experience or interest in learning Golang to build APIs (gRPC).
• Operational knowledge of Kubernetes is a plus, or passion to learn Kubernetes operations.
• Ability to navigate the complexity of distributed systems to operate them in production.
• Contribution to the reliability and performance of App Platform systems.
• Ability to contribute throughout all phases of a service lifecycle from conception through design, development, deployment and ultimately operation.
• A commitment to monitoring and observability.
• Systems thinking.
• Strong opinions, weakly held.
• Experience operating Kubernetes in production at large scales.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in Software Defined Networks (SDNs) is a plus, but not required.

Benefits

• Competitive array of benefits including Employee Assistance Program and Local Employee Meetups.
• Flexible time off policy.
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses.
• Salary range of $140,000 - $210,000 based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills.
• Eligibility for a bonus based on company and individual performance.
• Equity compensation including equity grants upon hire and participation in Employee Stock Purchase Program.