Senior Software Engineer II

• Building gRPC APIs using Go Lang
• Architecting an eventing model to be adopted widely by many developers and products
• Working closely with engineering teams to help them adopt the eventing system and replace legacy components
• Develop code to implement custom event aggregation solutions based on specific engineering requirements.
• Automate as much of the operational work as possible to allow time for innovation

Key Metrics:

• gRPC API request throughput (queries per second)
• End-to-end request latency and response time
• Error rate in gRPC calls and event processing
• Event aggregation accuracy
• Automation coverage of operational tasks and deployment frequency

What You ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Proficiency in a programming language such as Go, Python or Java. We primarily use Go
• Familiarity with Apache Kafka, RedPanda, or similar event streaming platforms
• Strong understanding of API design principles, including REST and RPC architectures
• Familiarity with configuration management, deployment automation, and instrumentation.
• An appreciation of SRE principles, along with utilizing data and automation to improve systems.
• Excellent communication skills. We work intimately with product teams to ensure our customers have the observability they need to be successful on our platform.
• You have strong opinions when it comes to building and using APIs and you can articulate the reasons why
• Huge bonus points
• if you ve built an eventing or asynchronous communication bus in the past
• Have familiarity with Analytics database such as Click House , Redshift or BigQuery