H4EAD, USC and GC only - Remote - Managed Databases (DBaaS) with Go Lang

[Tansheer Aalam]

Role: Senior Engineer: Managed Databases (DBaaS) with Go Lang

Location: SFO, CA – Remote

Duration: Long Term Contract

Interview: Video

 

Job Description

 

Senior Engineer: Managed Databases (DBaaS)

• Simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
• With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings,  enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications.
• As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.
• We want people who are passionate about building features that you and your peers will love
• Managed Databases Team builds and runs the services and infrastructure for the 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 an experienced engineer to work on a small team focused on Database-as-a-Service products.
• This role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Datastores and Messaging team within the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) organization in Engineering.

 

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Developing external customer-facing Managed Database products (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, Kafka, OpenSearch, MongoDB).
• Developing and maintaining distributed systems.
• Authoring and giving feedback on technical designs.
• Developing APIs with Go Lang.
• Providing the last-line of support for DBaaS products.
• Collaborating with an agile, self-managed team of peers.
• Leveraging technologies such as Temporal, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Grafana and more.
• Integrating with many components across the DigitalOcean stack.
• Evangelizing the work of the team with Engineering, Product, Design, and beyond.

 

What We’ll Expect From You:

• A solid understanding of building and maintaining distributed systems.
• Experience with resilience engineering, fault tolerance, and failure domains as they relate to database backends.
• Strong spoken and written technical capabilities in developing and maintaining software.
• Proficiency in developing APIs with Golang.
• Experience with concurrency patterns in Golang.
• Working knowledge of microservices using container workload engines and frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and frameworks.
• A strong background and exposure to different databases.
• Familiarity with prevalent message bus and queuing technologies.
• Passion for collaborating directly with customers to discover their Jobs To Be Done, and developing simple delightful solutions to solve those jobs.
• Ability to work closely with front-end developers.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate and demonstrate empathy with key stakeholders, both spoken and written.