Senior Software Engineer I - Mongo/Aiven KTLO

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 want people who are passionate about building features that you and your peers will love.DigitalOcean is welcoming a new technical engineering manager to support our engineers, grow our culture, and lead the team developing our customer and platform engineering product offerings. This person will be responsible for guiding the development of a mixed-skill engineering team, facilitating communications, providing clarity of vision and priority, and empowering the team to create creative solutions for our DigitalOcean customers. The teams mission is to simplify the customer and developer experience so they can focus on building and operating their applications to Get Growing.We are excited to meet candidates who share our passions for technology solutions, healthy services, and being loving service providers, team members, and leaders.

• Develop the control plane for a cloud DBaaS platform

• Build highly scalable distributed systems at scale

• Build and operate specific database engine controls to provision, destroy, scale, and backup clusters

• Build world class telemetry and logging to provide proactive signals and alerts to both engineering teams and customers if something isn’t right

• Orchestrate complex workflows for various database engines

• Automate and create playbooks for operations related to owning and running database engines that may include minor or major upgrades, security patching, and other maintenance events

• Stay current with trends in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes operators, control plane patterns, and the DBaaS competitive landscape to inform long-term technical strategy.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering

• Experience delivering complex cloud-scale distributed systems, particularly in data and OLTP databases.

• Golang and gRPC experience

• Strong knowledge of K8s and deployment pipelines including Github Actions

• Preferred: Experience with orchestration engines such as Temporal

• Preferred: Operation experience with MongoDB

• Systems thinking.

• Strong opinions, weakly held.

*This job is located in Bengaluru, India

JR: 2026-7982

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• 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,