Senior Storage Systems Engineer II

Leveraging 7+ years of experience towards the research, architecture, design, and development of class leading disaggregated block storage for DigitalOcean’s compute products. Help design and lead a multi-year technical roadmap balancing short and long-term investments. Collaborate with a motivated team of peers through key technical decision making. Author and review technical designs. Contribute to free/open source software communities. Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding fast paced environment. The candidate will add their background and experience in distributed storage systems, especially in large scale SaaS or IaaS environments. Exceptional collaboration and communication skills working in tandem with orchestration, compute, and product teams to deliver a solution our customers are thrilled about. Provide guidance on continuously improving our storage services using real world usage data. A product mindset that balances an exceptional customer storage experience with sustainable technology in the back end. Sharing responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of existing storage products. Suggest and implement ways to improve our operability and scale. Previous Ceph or other open source storage system experience is a bonus.