Principal Engineer, Managed Database Services Join to apply for the Principal Engineer, Managed Database Services role at DigitalOcean 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. As a Principal Engineer you\u2019ll spearhead the design, development, and operation of scalable, high‑availability, and high-performance database platforms across relational and non-relational managed services (Managed MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, etc.) and scale-out variants that scale to petabytes of data. Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across both backend systems and customer-facing interactions. Responsibilities Architect and Build Design and evolve the architecture of large-scale distributed database systems optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency. Architect solutions for storage engines, indexing, querying, caching, replication, and high availability, drawing from best practices in both relational and NoSQL paradigms. Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery

Technical Leadership Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the database engineering teams. Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team\u2019s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.

Cross-functional Collaboration Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps. Guide customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) to define database solutions and migration strategies aligned with organizational goals

Reliability, Performance & Scaling Lead Operations Excellence for database services, establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while raising the bar Oversee availability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, and disaster recovery for database platforms. Drive automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations

Innovation & Future Roadmapping Research and integrate advanced capabilities (e.g., AI‑assisted tooling, MCP protocols) to enhance developer workflows and metadata accessibility across database types.

Qualifications Technical Experience: \u2265 12915 years in distributed systems architecture, database internals (storage, indexing, query optimizers), and cloud infrastructure. Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade systems on one or more database services in the Cloud. Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact. Automation Proficiency: Familiarity with infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and observability frameworks. Communication & Mentoring: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams. Benefits & Culture We innovate with purpose. You\u2019ll be 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. We prioritize career development. 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. Resources for growth include conferences, training, and LinkedIn Learning. We care about your well-being. Competitive benefits, including programs to support you regardless of location. We reward our employees. Salary range for this position is $247,680 - $371,520, with potential bonuses and equity compensation; eligibility for Employee Stock Purchase Program. We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer; we do not discriminate on race, religion, color, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or military service. This is a remote role. Note: This refined description preserves the core content while ensuring proper semantic structure with allowed HTML tags and eliminates extraneous duplication.

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