Senior Engineer I - Billing

We are looking for a Senior Engineer I who is passionate about building scalable, intuitive, and reliable billing solutions. 

As a Senior Engineer I on the Billing Engineering Team at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and delivering a seamless, trustworthy billing experience to our customers. You’ll report to the Engineering Manager of Billing Engineering and work closely with teams across Finance, Product, and Engineering to ensure that our billing platform remains accurate, transparent, and highly available. The ideal candidate is deeply empathetic toward customers, embraces continuous learning, and is driven to build simple yet powerful billing systems.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable services, APIs, and workflows that support DigitalOcean’s billing platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement new billing features, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance.
• Leverage technologies such as Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, Kafka, Grafana, Temporal, MySQL, and Redis.
• Create tooling and self-service capabilities to empower internal stakeholders and streamline processes.
• Contribute to continuous improvements in CI/CD workflows, performance, and developer experience within the billing ecosystem.

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Proven experience in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, highly performant systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang); experience with Ruby is a plus.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture, especially with Docker, Kubernetes, gRPC, Kafka, and MySQL.
• Familiarity with modern CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and observability best practices.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a passion for cross-functional teamwork.
• A growth mindset and a customer-first attitude, with a track record of learning and adapting continuously.

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 $145,000 - $170,000 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. 
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. 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.

*This is a remote role

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