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Dive in and do the best work of your career rney 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 are looking for a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to join our Customer Observability/Insights team. In this role, you’ll architect, build, and maintain large-scale distributed systems that power Digital Ocean’s Customer facing Observability ecosystem. You’ll collaborate across engineering, product, and design teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly solutions that help our teams monitor, measure, and optimize cloud infrastructure at scale.

• Architect, design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and systems.
• Drive technical initiatives and large cross-team projects from concept to production.
• Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and engineers across distributed teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Develop deep expertise in observability tools and technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, time-series databases, and distributed tracing.
• Build and maintain high-performance APIs and microservices using Go (Golang) and gRPC, integrating with systems like Kafka, Redis, and No
  
  SQL databases.
• Work with Terraform and Ansible to automate infrastructure deployment and configuration management.
• Utilize knowledge of SQL for data analysis, service integration, and operational insights.
• Lead efforts in debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of complex distributed systems.
• Champion operational excellence by improving reliability, monitoring, and alerting practices.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to other engineers.

• 15+ years of relevant industry experience building and operating large-scale cloud services or distributed systems in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Strong programming experience in Go (Golang) and deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience working with OTEL (Open Telemetry) Collector, including instrumentation, data pipelines, and telemetry ingestion for metrics, logs, and traces.
• Proven experience designing and implementing scalable event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar technologies.
• Experience with gRPC, Terraform, and Ansible for service communication and infrastructure automation.
• Working knowledge of SQL, Redis, and No
  
  SQL databases.
• Demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence and improve system reliability.
• Experience making pragmatic technical trade-offs while balancing short-term needs and long-term goals.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially with geographically distributed teams.
• Strong ownership mindset and the ability to independently deliver high-impact projects.

• Experience with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, Docker, microservices).
• Familiarity with time-series databases and distributed tracing frameworks.
• Prior experience building or maintaining observability platforms.

• $163,456 - $204,320
• This is a remote role.

• We innovate with purpose and are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
• We prioritize career development with training, conferences, education reimbursement, and access to Linked In Learning courses.
• We care about your well‑being with competitive benefits such as Employee Assistance Program, local meetups, flexible time off, and more.
• We reward our employees with base salary, bonus opportunities, and equity compensation including Employee Stock Purchase Program participation.
• Digital Ocean 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.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology

• Internet Publishing