Staff Software Engineer - MySQL

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're looking for engineers who are passionate about building features that customers and fellow engineers will love for DigitalOcean's Managed Databases platform. The DBaaS team designs, builds, and operates the services and infrastructure that power DigitalOcean's Database-as-a-Service offerings. From customer-facing APIs to the automation that provisions, upgrades, monitors, and maintains databases, we own the complete database lifecycle.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership while building highly scalable, resilient database platform services that support our growing global customer base. This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager within the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) organization.

What You'll Do

• Develop and enhance customer-facing Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) products.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient backend services.
• Own end-to-end technical solutions, from architecture and design through deployment and production support.
• Lead the technical direction of complex engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
• Build and operate globally distributed cloud services running on Kubernetes.
• Develop backend services and APIs using Go (Golang), REST, and gRPC.
• Design reliable automation for database provisioning, upgrades, backups, recovery, and lifecycle management.
• Improve system scalability, availability, performance, observability, and reliability.
• Author, review, and drive technical design documentation and architectural decisions.
• Perform code reviews and champion engineering best practices, testing, and code quality.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and provide last-line support for DBaaS services.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Operations teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Build integrations across the DigitalOcean platform using cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Temporal, Grafana, REST, and gRPC.
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean

• Deep expertise in MySQL administration, performance tuning, optimisation, troubleshooting, and replication.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platforms.
• Strong understanding of database lifecycle management, automation, backup, recovery, and upgrades.
• Extensive experience developing high-performance backend systems using Go (Golang).
• Expertise in designing and developing RESTful APIs and gRPC services.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and modern cloud infrastructure.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL technologies, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, OpenSearch, and caching platforms.
• Strong architectural design skills with experience making technical decisions for large-scale systems.
• Passion for reliability engineering, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Experience building highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services.
• Strong debugging, performance optimisation, and incident management skills.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and raise engineering standards.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Passion for building reliable, maintainable, and customer-focused cloud platform services.

   

*This job is located in Bengaluru, India

JR: 2026-7976

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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.

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