Senior Software Engineer I-Storage

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.
We are looking for an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future storage platforms at scale. The Storage Team supports the operations and development of object storage, block volumes, backups and image management. Were 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.
What You’ll Do:
Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions
Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
Programming in Go and other languages
Collaborating with a motivated team of peers
Consuming from and contributing to free/open source software communities
Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding environment
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
7+ years of 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 languageBonus:\
Experience with gRPC, distributed data stores like Ceph, and storage hardware
*This job is located in Bengaluru, India
JR: 2026-7867
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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, emplo