Senior Software Engineer II - 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. 

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.
• Feature delivery: % of planned milestones delivered on time and meeting acceptance criteria.

 

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• 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 those solutions.
• Expertise in concurrency/parallelism models in modern programming languages like Go.
• A passion for open-source contributions and collaborating with the storage community.

*This job is located in Bengaluru, India

JR: 2026-8243

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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 a high-growth trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As part of our team, you’ll embody our "Shark" mindset: bold, ambitious, and scrappy. You'll lead with a bias for action and take true ownership of our products, customer success, and team culture.
• We prioritize career development. At DigitalOcean, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will join a community of exceptional talent, collaborating closely with some of the brightest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance and fast-paced organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our talent development team prioritizes your professional development and provides resources to support your growth. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, subject to company policy. 
• We care about your well-being. We take a comprehensive approach to our total rewards packages because we know different things drive different people. Our benefits are designed to support you and may include flexible time off, local team meetups, and mental health and well being support. Our benefits philosophy is consistent globally, but specific benefits and eligibility vary by location to reflect local needs and regulations.
• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. Eligible employees may also receive equity compensation, which may include a new hire equity grant and, in participating countries, the opportunity to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program. Equity awards are subject to approval and the terms of the applicable plan.
• Non-sales roles: In addition to base salary, this role is eligible to participate in DigitalOcean’s annual bonus plan and may be eligible for a new hire equity grant, subject to plan terms and local eligibility. Bonus amounts depend on company and individual performance.
• Sales roles (sales compensation eligible): In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible to earn incentive compensation under the applicable sales compensation plan and may be eligible for a new hire equity grant, subject to plan terms and local eligibility.
• DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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