** This position is open for residents in Mexico only **

We want people who are passionate about building apps that you and your peers will love.

As a Staff Engineer, you will define the next generation of cloud services and create flexible and powerful solutions that our customers will leverage to support our growing customer base. Your solutions will make developers’ lives (both inside DO and in the ‘wild’) easier by building new systems and improving the efficiency and performance of existing systems.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Evolving our existing architecture and code bases to build flexible and robust capabilities to solve business problems
• Create and maintain services that are performant and highly reliable
• Lead your team to build and mature engineering practices
• Mentor and coach less experience members of the Engineering org
• Multiply the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team work
• Set 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
• Take part in an on-call rotation
• Technologies we use: Kubernetes, Go, gRPC, MySQP, Redis, Kafka, Ember, and others

What We'll Expect From You:

• 11+ years as a software engineer, developer, or programmer building software used by 1000s of users
• Language: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, ship, maintain, and operate production-ready code and systems. (Go experience is a requirement)\
• Experience building reliable, maintainable, and tested software across large deployments
• 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
• Strong opinions, weakly held

Why You'll Like Working With Us:

• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on relevant years of experience and skills. Employees 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 grants of equity upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging our teams and employees to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs. We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your well-being. In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a competitive array of benefits. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal-opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.