Software Engineer II (Storage)
We are looking for an engineer who will help develop and support current and future storage platforms at scale.
The Storage Team supports the operations and development of object storage, block volumes, backups and image management. We're looking for a skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our Object Storage team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and operating the systems that power scalable, durable, and high-performance object storage for our customers. You will work closely with distributed systems, storage protocols (e.g., S3), performance tuning, and observability to ensure our platform meets enterprise-grade reliability and usability for the AI-Native Cloud.
What You'll Do:
- Collaborating with a motivated team of peers to deliver innovative storage solutions
- Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems at cloud scale
- Programming in Go and other languages
- Consuming from and contributing to free/open source software communities
- Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding environment
What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Knowledge of Object or other distributed Storage and how to scale those solutions
- Familiarity with object storage systems such as MinIO, Ceph, AWS S3, Scality, or similar
- Cultivating your skills, learning languages, and teaming up with an agile, self-motivated group of peers to design, develop, test and deploy software in modern tools and languages such as Go.
- Sharing responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of storage products
- Collaborating with and contributing to free and open source software communities
- Solving interesting problems of complexity and scale in a technically rewarding environment
- Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming language
- Bonus: Experience with gRPC, distributed data stores like Ceph, and storage hardware
*This job is located in Bengaluru, India
JR: 2026-7863
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