Staff Optimization Engineer

4 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States DigitalOcean Full time

Drive Performance Optimization at Scale
Join DigitalOcean as a Staff Optimization Engineer and play a pivotal role in ensuring our architecture remains efficient, resilient, and future-ready. As our systems rapidly expand, you'll spearhead efforts to optimize and enhance core system performance, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and AI/ML solutions to tackle complex infrastructure challenges.

Your Key Responsibilities:
Develop and implement comprehensive performance metrics, analysis tools, and reporting systems to empower our users with transparent insights into our systems' capabilities and efficiency. Lead initiatives to enhance shared infrastructure, balancing performance optimization with rigorous security standards. Collaborate with hardware engineering teams and vendors to continuously validate GPU fabric performance and engage with the open-source Linux community to advance virtualization technologies and integrate them into our fleet.

Requirements:
We're looking for someone with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or Computer/Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience. You should have extensive knowledge of Linux kernel, hypervisors, and open-source operating systems, as well as 7+ years of experience with performance measurement tools such as profilers, eBPF, XDP, fio, TPCC, MLPerf, and NCCL. Strong proficiency in Go, Python, and/or Ruby is also required, along with a deep understanding of kernel performance aspects, including scheduling, context switching, and hardware acceleration.

What We Offer:
As a member of our team, you'll enjoy a competitive salary range of $230,000 - $270,000 based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may also qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary, and we provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Why DigitalOcean?
We're proud to be a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, simplifying cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. Our team is made up of Sharks who think big, bold, and scrappy, like owners with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions. We prioritize career development, providing employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, as well as access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses. We care about your well-being, offering a competitive array of benefits to support your overall well-being, from one-time work from home stipend to wellness allowance to flexible time off policy.



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