Senior Software Engineer II - Storage
Senior engineer on DigitalOcean's Storage team in Bengaluru, designing, building, and operating scalable NFS and distributed file-storage platforms at cloud scale. The role involves writing high-performance storage services in Go, supporting block/object storage and file systems, and contributing to the open-source storage community.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bengaluru
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Deep knowledge of NFS, scalable file systems, and distributed storage architectures
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating highly available file storage solutions
- Familiarity with Object Storage and distributed file systems and how to scale them
- Expertise in concurrency/parallelism models in modern programming languages like Go
- Passion for open-source contributions and collaborating with the storage community
Nice to have
- Programming experience in Go and other languages for high-performance storage solutions
Full description
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.
Position Overview:
We are looking for an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future storage platforms at scale, with a particular focus on Network File System (NFS) and scalable file storage solutions.
The Storage Team supports the operations and development of block volumes, backups, image management, object storage, and scalable file systems like NFS. Our goal is to create a cohesive, singular interface to hypervisor storage, where storage class placement decisions are transparent to the hypervisor client and leverage the full range of block and file storage classes to best satisfy customer needs.
The selected candidate will have the opportunity to make impactful contributions to key software, contribute to the open source community, and debug interesting problems at cloud scale.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable NFS solutions and distributed file systems.
- Support the creation and operations of distributed systems at scale.
- Program in Go and other languages to develop high-performance storage solutions.
- Collaborate with a motivated team of peers to architect, develop, and optimize storage services.
- Contribute to and consume from free/open-source software communities, particularly in the file storage space.
- Solve complex, large-scale problems in a technically rewarding environment.
Key Metrics:
- Service availability (SLO/SLA): Monthly uptime for control plane and data plane (e.g., control plane ≥99.9%, data plane ≥99.95%); reported monthly.
- Mean time to detect / recover (MTTD / MTTR): Median detection and recovery times for Sev-1/Sev-2 incidents; tracked per quarter.
- Incident volume & change-failure rate: Number of incidents by severity and percentage of releases that cause rollbacks or incidents; tracked per release and monthly.
- Customer adoption & usage growth: Growth in active NFS customers, number of active mounts/clients, and total provisioned capacity (GiB/TiB) — measured QoQ.
- Operational efficiency / automation: Reduction in manual ops (on-call time, manual runbooks, toil) measured as % decrease in operational tickets or hours.