Staff Software Engineer - MySQL

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're looking for engineers who are passionate about building features that customers and fellow engineers will love for DigitalOcean's Managed Databases platform. The DBaaS team designs, builds, and operates the services and infrastructure that power DigitalOcean's Database-as-a-Service offerings. From customer-facing APIs to the automation that provisions, upgrades, monitors, and maintains databases, we own the complete database lifecycle.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership while building highly scalable, resilient database platform services that support our growing global customer base. This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager within the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) organization.

• Develop and enhance customer-facing Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) products.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient backend services.

• Own end-to-end technical solutions, from architecture and design through deployment and production support.

• Lead the technical direction of complex engineering initiatives across multiple teams.

• Build and operate globally distributed cloud services running on Kubernetes.

• Develop backend services and APIs using Go (Golang), REST, and gRPC.

• Design reliable automation for database provisioning, upgrades, backups, recovery, and lifecycle management.

• Improve system scalability, availability, performance, observability, and reliability.

• Author, review, and drive technical design documentation and architectural decisions.

• Perform code reviews and champion engineering best practices, testing, and code quality.

• Troubleshoot complex production issues and provide last-line support for DBaaS services.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Operations teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.

• Build integrations across the DigitalOcean platform using cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Temporal, Grafana, REST, and gRPC.

• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean

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