Design, develop, operate, and support scalable object storage systems and distributed storage platforms. Lead engineering efforts, program primarily in Go, optimize performance, maintain availability and reliability, and collaborate with distributed systems teams. Contribute to open-source communities and solve complex problems involving storage protocols, concurrency, parallelism, observability, and large-scale infrastructure.
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 are looking for an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future storage platforms at scale. The Storage Team supports the operations and development of object storage, block volumes, backups and image management. Were looking for a skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our Object Storage team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and operating the systems that power scalable, durable, and high-performance object storage for our customers. You will work closely with distributed systems, storage protocols (e.g., S3), performance tuning, and observability to ensure our platform meets enterprise-grade reliability and usability.
- Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions
- Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
- Programming in Go and other languages
- 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:
- 7+ years of Knowledge of Object or other distributed Storage and how to scale those solutions.
- Familiarity with object storage systems such as MinIO, Ceph, AWS S3, Scality, or similar.
- 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.
- 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 languageBonus:\
- Experience with gRPC, distributed data stores like Ceph, and storage hardware
*This job is located in Bengaluru, India
JR: 2026-7867
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
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