Senior Software Engineer I - Mongo/Aiven KTLO
DigitalOcean
| Company | DigitalOcean |
| Category | Uncategorised |
| Location | Bengaluru |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 27 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 9 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
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 want people who are passionate about building features that you and your peers will love.DigitalOcean is welcoming a new technical engineering manager to support our engineers, grow our culture, and lead the team developing our customer and platform engineering product offerings. This person will be responsible for guiding the development of a mixed-skill engineering team, facilitating communications, providing clarity of vision and priority, and empowering the team to create creative solutions for our DigitalOcean customers. The teams mission is to simplify the customer and developer experience so they can focus on building and operating their applications to Get Growing.We are excited to meet candidates who share our passions for technology solutions, healthy services, and being loving service providers, team members, and leaders.
What You’ll Do:
Develop the control plane for a cloud DBaaS platform
Build highly scalable distributed systems at scale
Build and operate specific database engine controls to provision, destroy, scale, and backup clusters
Build world class telemetry and logging to provide proactive signals and alerts to both engineering teams and customers if something isn’t right
Orchestrate complex workflows for various database engines
Automate and create playbooks for operations related to owning and running database engines that may include minor or major upgrades, security patching, and other maintenance events
Stay current with trends in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes operators, control plane patterns, and the DBaaS competitive landscape to inform long-term technical strategy.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years of experience in software engineering
Experience delivering complex cloud-scale distributed systems, particularly in data and OLTP databases.
Golang and gRPC experience
Strong knowledge of K8s and deployment pipelines including Github Actions
Preferred: Experience with orchestration engines such as Temporal
Preferred: Operation experience with MongoDB
Systems thinking.
Strong opinions, weakly held.
*This job is located in Bengaluru, India
JR: 2026-7982
#LI-Hybrid 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, employees, and decisions.
We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefit