About the Role
As an API Engineer at DigitalOcean, you will be part of the Platform Engineering team, responsible for developing and maintaining the APIs that power our cloud services. You will collaborate with various teams including UX, product, support, and infrastructure to deliver a consistent and coherent public API experience.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Collaborating with engineers, UX, product, support, data science, and more to provide a consistent, coherent public API.
- Providing expertise on the public API, API Gateway, API Tokens, doctl CLI, and API client tools to support the larger engineering community at DigitalOcean in delivering products and features.
- Partnering with our infrastructure teams for shared infrastructure needs (Auth, Deployment, Observability).
- Building features and fixing bugs on full stack production applications built with React front ends, Go-based back end services, and MySQL databases.
- Monitoring our production services and responding to incidents, including troubleshooting complex distributed systems.
- Interacting directly with the developer community via Github PRs, etc.
- Engaging with the larger engineering community at DigitalOcean to identify gaps and craft impactful improvements that meet the needs of the business.
- Participating in large multi-quarter projects and efforts.
- Responding to Slack messages and keeping up with various streams of conversation, including triaging user support requests.
What We Expect From You
- Passion for delivering simple and elegant solutions that developers will love.
- Empathy for our developer users and the customers/stakeholders you support.
- Proficiency with the Go programming language. Proficiency in additional languages is a plus (Java, C#, Python, TypeScript etc.)
- Experience with distributed systems: building, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with CI/CD, GitHub Actions, synthetic and smoke testing, and alerting.
- Expertise working cross-functionally with distributed teams.
- Clear communication through effective and crisp documentation, presentations, and asynchronous channels in a remote environment.
Additional Strengths
- Opinions about API, client, and CLI design.
- Familiarity with at least two of REST, GraphQL, and gRPC, extensive knowledge of at least one.
- Understanding of API versioning strategies, access control, and other best practices.
- Familiarity with Terraform, OpenAPI v3, and API contract testing is a plus.
- Experience with implementation and maintenance of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Identity and Access Management (IAM).
- Experience building and maintaining CLI-based tooling for engineers.
- React/TypeScript experience.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Equity compensation
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Reimbursement for conferences, training, and education
- Competitive health and wellness benefits
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