About the position
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 a Senior Software Engineer I who is passionate about building scalable, intuitive, and reliable billing solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer I on the Billing Engineering Team at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and delivering a seamless, trustworthy billing experience to our customers. You’ll report to the Engineering Manager of Billing Engineering and work closely with teams across Finance, Product, and Engineering to ensure that our billing platform remains accurate, transparent, and highly available. The ideal candidate is deeply empathetic toward customers, embraces continuous learning, and is driven to build simple yet powerful billing systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable services, APIs, and workflows that support DigitalOcean’s billing platform.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement new billing features, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance.
- Leverage technologies such as Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, Kafka, Grafana, Temporal, MySQL, and Redis.
- Create tooling and self-service capabilities to empower internal stakeholders and streamline processes.
- Contribute to continuous improvements in CI/CD workflows, performance, and developer experience within the billing ecosystem.
Requirements
- Proven experience in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, highly performant systems.
- Strong proficiency in Go (Golang); experience with Ruby is a plus.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture, especially with Docker, Kubernetes, gRPC, Kafka, and MySQL.
- Familiarity with modern CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and observability best practices.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a passion for cross-functional teamwork.
- A growth mindset and a customer-first attitude, with a track record of learning and adapting continuously.
Benefits
- Competitive array of benefits including Employee Assistance Program and Local Employee Meetups.
- Flexible time off policy.
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses.
- Salary range between $137,040.00 - $171,300.00 based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills.
- Eligibility for a bonus based on company and individual performance.
- Equity compensation including equity grants upon hire and participation in Employee Stock Purchase Program.
