Platform Operations Engineer

DigitalOcean, the cloud for developers, is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a passionate community of technologists around the world. We want to simplify cloud computing for every developer and are working on some of the most challenging and interesting problems in cloud computing.

As an engineer on the Platform team, you’ll architect the systems, software, and servers to keep our data centers running. You’ll build automation and systems management tools that make it easier to scale our rapidly growing business and deliver cloud infrastructure all around the world. You’ll also work on improving DigitalOcean’s systems performance and reliability. You should have a passion for systems, big data, network, and software engineering and you will work closely with other teams throughout the engineering organization.

• Top tier of escalation for infrastructure troubleshooting
• Supporting / Engineering large mesos cluster
• Write software to automate hardware provisioning, management, and other automatable tasks
• Create new tools and improve on existing tools to help automate tasks for the Platform Team and other teams in the organization
• Maintain and improve service quality and reliability across our complex set of services
• Work closely with network, software, and cloud operations engineers to build efficient and economical systems
• Communicate with vendors to debug and fix drivers and firmware

What We'll Expect From You:

• Expertise with one of the following languages: Go, Ruby, Python, C/C++
• Understanding of big data technologies such as Mesos, Spark, Kubernetes
• Experience with configuration management and hardware automation
• Experience monitoring and debugging large, global, distributed systems
• Experience in writing tools to manage 10,000+ physical servers
• Passion for continual incremental improvements on tooling / processes
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

Things We Would Look For In An Ideal Candidate:

• Languages: Go, Python
• Tools: Chef, Ansible, Prometheus, MySQL, KVM, libvirt, git
• Big Data Experience: Mesos, Spark, HDFS, Presto
• Infrastructure Bootstrapping: PXE, Live Images, Cobbler
• Commitment to open source tooling and open source contributions