Staff Software Engineer - MySQL

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.

What You’ll Do:

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.

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

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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