Software Systems Engineers at DigitalOcean are the glue between software and infrastructure engineering. They are responsible for driving cross functional work across all parts of our software and systems stack, ensuring that services are healthy and performant to drive the delivery of both internal and external services. This role is a mix of software and systems engineering and the team is composed of people with backgrounds in both disciplines. Even more so than those in other engineering roles, Software Systems Engineers must be outstanding communicators and bridge-builders across different parts of the Cloud Engineering organization. You’ll put your experience to work transforming mundane systems into massive data grids. You’ll also help development teams design and implement production and development environments and address system needs in new and creative ways that go beyond traditional infrastructure methods.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Improve all aspects of software and systems reliability, including monitoring, availability, and documentation
Design and develop new systems with an emphasis on minimized maintenance requirements, as well as maintain and enhance existing systems.
Systems analysis design and debugging of new systems.
Work with software and infrastructure engineering teams to improve tools, processes, and the software they support
Managing development, testing, and production devicesand physical server infrastructure
Do ad-hoc service capacity planning, maintenance and SLA/SLO definition for teams.
Managing capacity, designing systems architecture and performing technology refreshes
Participate in production readiness reviews and provide feedback to engineering teams on best practices.
Automate error-prone tasks to drive safety and determinism throughout complex distributed systems
Debug mission critical problems in production
Provide architecture and scaling guidance where necessary in both software and infrastructure engineering orgs
Delivery of internal and external infrastructure Services
Develop modules to communicate with various systems such as network devices, storage farms and servers
