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DigitalOcean

Principal Storage Engineer

DigitalOcean, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127

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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.

What You’ll Be Doing

Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions

Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems

Programming in Go and other languages

Mentoring and collaborating with a motivated team of peers

Consuming from and contributing to free/open source software communities

Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding environment

What You’ll Add To DigitalOcean

15+ years of knowledge of Network based Block Storage, Object Storage and distributed File Systems and how to scale those solutions.

Cultivating your skills, learning languages, and teaming up with an agile, self‑motivated group of peers to design, develop, test and deploy software in modern tools and languages such as Go.

Strong architecture skills

Sharing responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of storage products

Collaborating with and contributing to free and open source software communities

Solving interesting problems of complexity and scale in a technically rewarding environment

Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming language

Bonus: Experience with gRPC, distributed data stores like Ceph, NVMe over TCP, and storage hardware in general

Compensation Range

$235,000 - $298,000

This is a remote role

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean

We innovate with purpose. You’ll be part of a cutting‑edge technology company with an upward trajectory, proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.

We prioritize career development. We will provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, and 10,000+ LinkedIn Learning courses.

We care about your well‑being. We offer competitive benefits, Employee Assistance Program, local meetups, flexible time off, etc.

We reward our employees. Salary range is market based; bonus and equity compensation are available.

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.

Location: Seattle, WA

Seniority level Mid‑Senior level

Employment type Full‑time

Job function Information Technology

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