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Senior Customer Success Engineer I - Kubernetes
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 Customer Success Engineer I – Kubernetes who is passionate about cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and delivering exceptional customer experiences, while providing high-touch, white-glove support to strategic accounts.
As a Senior Customer Success Engineer I at DigitalOcean, you will play a critical role in supporting and empowering customers to successfully run production workloads on Kubernetes. You will work closely with customers to troubleshoot complex issues, optimize cluster performance, and guide them in adopting best practices across Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.
In this role, you will bring deep technical expertise in Kubernetes and act as an escalation point for complex, business-critical customer scenarios. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Engineering to drive customer outcomes, influence platform improvements, and mentor junior engineers. This role reports to the Manager, Customer Success Engineer.
What You'll Do
- Deliver advanced technical support for Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, including cluster provisioning, container products, networking, scaling, workload orchestration, and container registry.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues affecting cluster performance, pod scheduling, ingress, storage, and security
- Guide strategic customers through onboarding, migrations, and adoption of Kubernetes, helping them design scalable, resilient, and secure architectures while ensuring smooth production readiness and resolving complex escalations.
- Serve as the escalation point for high-impact and business-critical Kubernetes issues, driving resolution through coordination with Engineering, and Product teams
- Guide customers in designing scalable, resilient, and secure Kubernetes architectures on DigitalOcean
- Mentor IC1/IC2 engineers and drive team growth by contributing to documentation, playbooks, and leverage automation tools to optimize workflows and knowledge sharing
- Partner cross-functionally with leadership, Product, and Engineering to shape support strategy, feature needs, and best practices for Managed Kubernetes.
- Use observability and monitoring tools to diagnose system behavior and performance bottlenecks
Key Metrics
- Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
- Time to Resolution / SLA adherence
- Escalation quality and resolution effectiveness
- Documentation and knowledge base contributions
- Customer adoption of best practices
What You'll Add to DigitalOcean
Required Experience & skills
- 4–7+ years of experience in technical support, SRE, DevOps, or cloud engineering roles
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) with hands-on expertise in managing and troubleshooting production clusters.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (cluster management, deployments, troubleshooting) in production environments
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes components (API server, etcd, scheduler, controller manager, kubelet.)
- Solid foundation in Linux systems, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of networking concepts including Kubernetes networking, ingress controllers, load balancing, and storage solutions (persistent volumes, CSI drivers)
- Expertise in troubleshooting across application, container, and infrastructure layers
- Customer-first mindset with the ability to manage high-pressure, business-critical situations and delivering great support experiences
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
- Ability to work independently, take ownership, and collaborate across teams in a fast-paced environment
Preferred Qualification:
- Experience with managed Kubernetes platforms (DOKS, EKS, GKE, AKS) and multi-cloud or hybrid environments
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Helm, or Ansible.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux)
- Exposure to observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes security best practices (RBAC, network policies, secrets management)
- Contributions to open-source projects, blogs, or documentation in Kubernetes/cloud-native ecosystems
- At least one of the Advanced Kubernetes certifications (CKAD, CKS)
Bonus: Experience with one or more programming/scripting languages (Go, Python, Bash)
JR: [2026-7644]
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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, 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 benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
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Technical Account Manager
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 meaningful, long-term relationships with our customers that help grow and scale business in the cloud.
Our Technical Account Manager team’s mission is to partner with our most critical business customers, helping them achieve desired outcomes through optimal use of the cloud platform aligned to their business strategy. Technical Account Management is an integral part of our company. They are passionate about building meaningful, long-term relationships with our customers and are experts in cloud technology and the digital economy. As the voice of the customer, you have the opportunity to influence decisions that will greatly improve user experience and contribute to DigitalOcean’s long-term success.
This is a unique and exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about advising companies as they scale. This multifaceted role combines the responsibilities of a Technical Account Manager with leadership, technical, and strategic elements, making it a crucial position within our organization.
As a Technical Account Manager at DigitalOcean, you are a strategic partner for our key business customers, ensuring they receive the guidance, support, and resources needed to succeed. You will leverage your technical knowledge and customer advocacy skills to retain and grow our customers' deployments on DigitalOcean, helping them solve complex challenges and maximize the value of their cloud infrastructure.
What You’ll Do:
Technical Consultation & Architecture Design:
- Develop and maintain deep expertise in the DigitalOcean product portfolio and the evolving cloud ecosystem.
- Help design, diagram, and plan infrastructure architectures tailored to customer use cases, explaining solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Conduct regular technical consultation sessions and workshops, enabling customers to be self-sufficient in managing their cloud environments.
- Maintain knowledge of cloud infrastructure best practices and recent technologies through the regular attainment and maintenance of important cloud technology certifications and coursework.
Proactive Customer Engagement & Growth:
- Manage and maintain DigitalOcean’s key accounts
- Partner closely with customers to drive engagement, retention, and expansion of their DigitalOcean workloads.
- Conduct QBRs with key accounts, assessing their progress, understanding their evolving needs, and aligning on strategies for future growth.
- Identify opportunities for cost reduction and performance optimization, guiding customers to make data-driven decisions that maximize their cloud investments.
- Collaborate with internal teams, such as Engineering, Marketing, and Account Managers, to align customer needs with DigitalOcean’s strategic goals.
- Proactively monitor customer usage trends, identify potential risks, and uncover new opportunities for growth and adoption.
Advocacy & Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Act as the voice of the customer within DigitalOcean, ensuring their needs are represented in product development and support processes.
- Liaise with Engineering and Support teams to resolve escalations and technical challenges quickly, ensuring smooth customer experiences.
- Deliver compelling presentations to articulate the benefits and functionality of DigitalOcean’s offerings to customers.
- Contribute to internal and external technical documentation, and provide training for DigitalOcean’s teams and partners to ensure knowledge transfer.
Tooling & Efficiency:
- Develop tools and scripts to streamline DigitalOcean’s technical engagements, improving the efficiency of the Technical Account Management functions.
- Stay current with industry trends and best practices to continuously enhance DigitalOcean's customer engagement strategies.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
Technical Expertise:
- Proven experience in cloud infrastructure and deep knowledge of Linux, distributed systems, and automation.
- Programming or development experience, with basic skills in at least one mainstream language (e.g., Python, Go).
- Understanding of provisioning and deployment strategies, with knowledge of tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Docker.
- Proficiency with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure).
- Proven track record of successfully troubleshooting technical problems.
- Familiarity with version control (e.g., Git), SQL and basic database administration, CI/CD tools, and AI/ML infrastructure principles.
Customer-Centric Approach:
- Passionate about delivering exceptional customer experiences, with a history of building successful technical solutions that align with business goals.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, prioritize effectively, and set clear expectations.
- Strong analytical skills to monitor customer trends and identify opportunities for improvement and growth.
- Experience advocating for customer needs and translating feedback into actionable insights.
Communication Skills:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, capable of translating complex technical concepts for varied audiences.
- Ability to create and deliver technical presentations and training sessions that resonate with customer needs.
Adaptability & Initiative:
- Self-starter with a passion for technology and open-source projects, eager to learn new tools and systems.
- Quick to adapt to changes in the cloud ecosystem, always looking for ways to improve customer engagement and technical solutions.
- Extra credit for experience in (Technical) Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, or Technical Account Management roles, particularly within fast-paced startup environments.
Extra Credit:
- Cloud certifications (AWS/GCP/Oracle/Azure) and NVIDIA certifications for GPU and AI/ML.
- Experience with networking (Cisco/Juniper), automation tools (Terraform, Ansible), virtualization (KVM, Xen), and databases (e.g., MongoDB, MySQL).
- Familiarity with open-source technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes (CKA/CKE), and DigitalOcean’s API.
- Linux certifications (e.g., RHCSA/RHCE)
- Experience working with large CRMs like Gainsight and Salesforce
*This job is located in Hyderabad, India
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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, 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 benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
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Sr Engineer I (GPU)
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 seeking a skilled Software Engineer with expertise in GPU Infrastructure, Ubuntu operating systems, and automation to design, build, maintain, and optimize machine images across a variety of cloud platforms. In this role, you will play a key part in delivering standardized, secure, and high-performant images, including those deployed on GPU Bare Metal and GPU droplet (VM) images
You will focus on automating the image creation lifecycle, ensuring image integrity, and optimizing for performance and security. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in GPU infrastructure, automation, and test systems, along with a strong passion for building secure, scalable, and efficient machine images that power modern cloud-native applications and services.
What You’ll Do:
- Work with key stakeholders in packaging and continuously testing our GPU images across multiple platform services. This includes coordination with hardware engineering teams on packaging firmware versions and maintaining an active compatibility matrix of GPU drivers across Nvidia and AMD GPU platforms (H100/H200/MI300x/MI325x).
- Automation and Scripting: Develop and maintain tooling and scripts (e.g., using HashiCorp Packer, Ansible, Terraform, Python, Shell scripting) to automate the creation, testing, and deployment of machine images.
- Security and Compliance: Ensure machine images adhere to security best practices, including hardening, patch management, and compliance with organizational and industry standards (e.g., CIS benchmarks, GDPR, HIPAA).
- Optimization: Optimize machine images for performance, size, and boot time to enhance scalability and reduce operational costs.
- CI/CD Integration: Integrate machine image creation into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI for automated builds and deployments.
- Versioning and Documentation: Maintain version control for machine images and document configurations, processes, and best practices.
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Implement monitoring for image performance and troubleshoot issues related to image deployment and runtime in cloud environments.
- Stay Updated: Keep abreast of advancements in cloud technologies, containerization, and image management tools to propose and implement improvements.
What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Strong experience with building Linux operating system images.
- Solid understanding of GPU related infrastructure including NCCL, RCCL testing frameworks particularly in a fabric connected environment.
Hands-on experience building and managing machine images using tools like Packer, cloud-init, Ansible, Python, and shell scripting. - Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) for automating image pipelines.
- Strong understanding of security practices in image building (e.g., CVE scanning, secrets management, system hardening).
- Experience in regulated environments (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC2, etc.)
- Knowledge of Immutable Infrastructure and Golden Image pipelines.
- Experience with configuration management tools like Chef or Puppet.
This is a hybrid role based in either Hyderabad or Bangalore(India), depending on the candidate's preference.
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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, 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 benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
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Linux Admin
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 huge scale networks on the Internet.
We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join the existing network engineering team, working with the infrastructure group. Reporting to the Manager of Network Engineering, the Network Engineer will be part of a team that is designing, implementing and maintaining the DigitalOcean network from the Internet edge to the hypervisor connections. Our networks need to be massively scalable, and enable systems agility, while providing our hundreds of thousands of customers with the most stable platform. We work with other infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure new products and features have scalable network architectures and will provide the performance our customers require.
If you’re looking for a Network Engineering role to challenge your skills and be rewarding and fulfilling, while working with top of the line equipment and managing a large network with huge scaling requirements and modern design, this job is for you.
What You’ll Do:
- Providing hands-on technical design and engineering for network-related tools and systems
- Working with networking-focused software engineers to develop/maintain our network automation and monitoring platform.SDN solution and integration
- Developing and contributing to open source projects relating to network and platform engineering
- Helping to maintain good code quality by providing guidance during code reviews
- Developing and maintaining network automation solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree
- Knowledge of and demonstrated ability in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python
- Expertise with Linux
- Experience with CI/CD, containers and/or virtualization, web servers, and databases
- Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack
- Experience with automation frameworks (Salt preferred)
- Good knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git, and accustomed to multi-branches development
- Experience working on, building, and troubleshooting large-scale datacenter networks
- Experience working on, building, and troubleshooting global backbone networks
- Experience working with Juniper hardware (e.g., MX, QFX, EX, SRX) and the Junos operating system, and Nokia, Arista, and Ciena
- Experience working with typical layer-2 and -3 protocols such (e.g., BGP, OSPF, VRRP, IS-IS ,LACP,MC-LAG)
- Experience working with MPLS, including BGP-LU (RSVP-TE experience a plus)
This is a hybrid role based out of Hyderabad, India.
#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 benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
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Customer Success Engineer II - Database
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 Customer Success Engineer II - Database who is passionate about cloud infrastructure, database technologies, and delivering exceptional customer experiences, while providing high-touch, white-glove support to strategic accounts.
As a Customer Success Engineer II at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to supporting and empowering customers to successfully run their workloads on our platform. You will work closely with customers to troubleshoot issues, optimize database performance, and guide them in adopting best practices across managed databases and cloud infrastructure.
In this role, you will build strong technical depth across database systems and DigitalOcean products while developing your ability to handle increasingly complex customer scenarios. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Engineering to ensure seamless customer outcomes. This role reports to the Manager, Customer Success Engineer.
What You'll Do
- Deliver hands-on technical support for database and cloud infrastructure issues across technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Valkey (Redis), MongoDB and Clickhouse, with exposure to cloud-native and Kubernetes environments
- Diagnose and resolve production issues impacting database performance, availability, replication, backups, and connectivity
- Guide customers in designing scalable, reliable, and high-performing database architectures on DigitalOcean
- Collaborate with senior engineers and stakeholders to support onboarding, migrations, customer success, and the resolution of complex escalations contributing to root cause analysis and resolution
- Analyze customer architectures to identify improvement opportunities and recommend best practices
- Participate in incident response and on-call rotations to support critical customer issues
- Contribute to team growth through case reviews and knowledge sharing, while developing and maintaining technical documentation and playbooks to drive continuous improvement.
- Advocate for customer feedback to influence product improvements and platform enhancements
- Identify opportunities to leverage automation and AI tools to streamline support workflows, reduce manual effort, and improve response quality.
- Use monitoring and observability tools to diagnose performance bottlenecks and system behavior.
Key Metrics
- Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
- Time to Resolution / SLA adherence
- Escalation quality and resolution effectiveness
- Documentation and knowledge base contributions
- Customer adoption of best practices
What You'll Add to DigitalOcean
Required Experience & skills
- 2–5 years of experience in technical support, DevOps, cloud engineering, or similar roles
- Hands-on experience with some of the major database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Clickhouse), with some familiarity across Kafka and others.
- Strong Foundational knowledge of Linux, networking, and cloud infrastructure concepts
- Understanding of database fundamentals including backups, replication, indexing, and performance tuning
- Strong troubleshooting skills across application, database, and infrastructure layers
- Customer-first mindset with a passion for solving technical problems and delivering great support experiences
- Effective communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
Preferred Qualification:
- Proven experience contributing to open-source projects, particularly in the database ecosystem (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB) or related technologies like Kafka, OpenSearch, or database migration tools.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
- Basic Experience to distributed systems or containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Helm, or Ansible.
- Contributions to open-source projects, technical blogs, or documentation related to databases or cloud-native technologies
- At least one of the Database Certifications, such as Oracle Certified Professional or Databases Administrator
- Exposure to one or more programming languages (PHP, Python, NodeJS) or a strong interest in developing coding skills.
JR: [2026-7645]
*This job is located in Hyderabad, India
#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 benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean