Data Center Engineer

About the job

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

Headquartered in New York but based around the world, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing for every developer. We are working on solving some of the most challenging and interesting technology projects around, on a scale unmatched by most.

We want people who are passionate about building features that you and your peers will love.

At DigitalOcean, Data Center Engineers play a massive role in the success of our business. Our amazing Data Center team is responsible for maintaining and growing the physical infrastructure of the DigitalOcean cloud, past, present and future. They own everything related to the physical servers and networking gear that enables our company, and our customers to scale.

Day to day duties may include everything from replacing a faulty drive in one of our servers, to flying overseas to set up a brand new Data Center from scratch. In exchange for your expertise and enthusiastic interest in DigitalOcean, we can offer you a role on a fast growing, and collaborative team where you'll be given regular opportunities to hone your skills and learn new ones.

What You'll Be Doing

• Deploying and maintaining new Data Center infrastructure
• Racking, stacking and wiring servers, power distribution units, and switches
• Installing servers, switches, routers, and storage hardware
• Submitting RMA to equipment manufacturers and shipping and receiving gear to and from remote locations and vendors
• Submitting and tracking remote work requests and managing server and component inventory
• Diagnosing and repairing hardware and performing upgrades, integrations, rebuilds and other projects as needed
• Debugging network, hardware, and Linux OS related issues

What You'll Add To DigitalOcean

• Hands on experience with servers, hardware, networking
• Basic proficiency with Linux OS (working in terminal sessions or command line)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, a collaborative nature and a friendly can-do attitude
• Solid troubleshooting skills in networking, hardware, and Linux OS related issues
• A strong desire and aptitude for solving problems and performing deep technical dives to resolve issues quickly and efficiently
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation
• A valid driver’s license (must be comfortable with driving)
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally (10% - 15% travel)
• Ability to be on your feet all day
• Ability to lift objects up to 50 lbs

Why You’ll Like Working For DigitalOcean

• We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship, LinkedIn Learning tracks, and other internal programs. We also provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your physical, financial and mental well-being. We offer a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health and a monthly internet bill reimbursement and remote workstation program to make working from home as easy and comfortable as possible.
• We support our remote employee experience. While we have great office spaces in NYC, Cambridge, and Bangalore, we’re very distributed—we use a number of communication tools to connect across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to visit our offices and meet their teams face-to-face at team offsites. We also have an annual company offsite, Shark Week, to get quality in-person time with the entire company at least once a year.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Department: Infrastructure