DigitalOcean

Customer Success Engineer – Database, 2nd Shift

DigitalOcean

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaMassachusettsUnited States

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Salary

💰 $75,200 - $94,000 per year

About the role

  • Deliver hands-on technical support for database and cloud infrastructure issues across technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Valkey (Redis), MongoDB and Clickhouse, with exposure to cloud-native and Kubernetes environments
  • Diagnose and resolve production issues impacting database performance, availability, replication, backups, and connectivity
  • Guide customers in designing scalable, reliable, and high-performing database architectures on DigitalOcean
  • Collaborate with senior engineers and stakeholders to support onboarding, migrations, customer success, and the resolution of complex escalations.
  • Analyze customer architectures to identify improvement opportunities and recommend best practices
  • Participate in incident response and on-call rotations to support critical customer issues
  • Contribute to team growth through case reviews and knowledge sharing, while developing and maintaining technical documentation and playbooks to drive continuous improvement.
  • Advocate for customer feedback to influence product improvements and platform enhancements
  • Identify opportunities to leverage automation and AI tools to streamline support workflows, reduce manual effort, and improve response quality.
  • Use monitoring and observability tools to diagnose performance bottlenecks and system behavior.

Requirements

  • 2–5 years of experience in technical support, DevOps, cloud engineering, or similar roles
  • Hands-on experience with some of the major database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Clickhouse), with some familiarity across Kafka and others.
  • Strong Foundational knowledge of Linux, networking, and cloud infrastructure concepts
  • Understanding of database fundamentals including backups, replication, indexing, and performance tuning
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across application, database, and infrastructure layers
  • Customer-first mindset with a passion for solving technical problems and delivering great support experiences
  • Effective communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits
  • 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 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
MySQLPostgreSQLRedisMongoDBClickhouseKubernetesLinuxnetworkingcloud infrastructureperformance tuning
Soft Skills
troubleshootingcustomer-first mindseteffective communicationproblem-solvingcollaborationindependenceadaptabilityknowledge sharingcontinuous improvementcustomer advocacy