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. As a Principal Engineer on the PaaS team, you will be architecting systems that span our global infrastructure network. You will define the next generation of cloud services, making developers' lives (both inside DO and in the 'wild') easier by building new services to power our platform as a service offerings. This is a unique opportunity to deliver the best hosted infrastructure experience in the industry to millions of developers around the world. What You'll Be Doing:

Drive architecture for complex products by determining current limitations and coming up with solutions

Design and architect large scale systems

Mentor and coach less experienced members of the Engineering org

Ship multiple large services and major pieces of infrastructure

Multiply the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team work

Sets short to medium-term strategic technical direction, able to look ahead 6-12 months and identify the areas of greatest need and create plans to improve them. Technologies we use:

Go, Perl, Libvirt, Virtio, KVM, Open vSwitch, GRPC, MySQL, Chef, Git, Kubernetes, Containers

What We'll Expect From You:

11+ years of software development experience

Significant experience as a software engineer, developer, or programmer building software used by 1000s of users

Expertise with at least one of the following languages: Go, Perl, Ruby, Python, C/C++, Java

Experience with large scale distributed systems programming

Passion for mentoring and coaching other members on your team

Record of creating sweeping improvements in stability, performance and scalability across major business-critical systems

Experience with at least one configuration management system like Chef, Ansible and/or Puppet

Deep understanding and knowledge of virtualization (such as libvirt, KVM, QEMU, Namespaces and Containers)

Hands-on working knowledge of technologies such as Kubernetes and Containers is a plus. Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean

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, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.

We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.

We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.

We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is $206,400 - $309,600 based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.