Director of Engineering

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Dive in and do the best work of your career rney 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.

The App Platform team is at the core of Digital Ocean's Platform‑as‑a‑Service (PaaS) offering. Our mission is to build a fully managed platform that allows developers to build, deploy, and scale their applications simply by pushing code, without ever worrying about the underlying infrastructure. We manage the end‑to‑end experience, from source code to a globally available application, leveraging a modern stack to solve complex challenges in distributed systems, container orchestration, and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a multi‑team engineering organization, focusing on developing engineering managers and senior technical leaders.

• Partner with senior leadership in Product, Design, and GTM to define the long‑term strategic vision and multi‑year roadmap for the App Platform.

• Scale and optimize execution across the entire Software Development Lifecycle, ensuring teams adhere to agile principles and deliver high‑quality, high‑velocity results.

• Provide high‑level technical and architectural direction for the entire App Platform ecosystem, empowering the organization to make high‑impact architectural decisions aligned with scalability and reliability goals. Deep expertise in Golang and Kubernetes (k8s) is essential.

• Own the platform's health, reliability, and performance, driving a culture of operational excellence and customer‑obsessed accountability for meeting and exceeding SLAs.

• Develop and track Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for the organization, aligning them with broader company goals and ensuring measurable business value.

• Act as the key engineering stakeholder for App Platform, partnering with senior leaders across Digital Ocean (including Kubernetes, Storage, and Networking) to build a seamless and cohesive product experience.

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership experience, including a proven track record of managing engineering managers and leading multi‑team organizations.

• Deep technical expertise in Golang and Kubernetes, with experience guiding senior‑level technical and architectural discussions and setting long‑term direction.

• Strong experience scaling modern application development and deep understanding of the SDLC at an organizational level; expertise in agile methodology and version control systems such as Git.

• Awareness of modern developer landscape, including Generative AI and AI‑assisted tooling such as Git Hub Copilot.

• Significant experience building, managing, or defining strategy for services in a public cloud environment (Digital Ocean, AWS, GCP, Azure). Direct experience with PaaS, container orchestration, or CI/CD systems is a major plus.

• Strong foundation in building and operating scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems at scale.

• Deep commitment to operational excellence, meeting and exceeding SLAs, and customer‑obsessed monitoring and observability.

• Product‑mindful leadership with experience integrating user feedback and market analysis into engineering strategy, focusing on delivering business value.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to convey complex technical strategy to executive, technical, and non‑technical audiences.

Compensation

• $230,400 – $288,000

• Remote role

Why You’ll Like Working for Digital Ocean

• We innovate with purpose, simplifying cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.

• We prioritize career development, offering conferences, training, and Linked In Learning courses.

• We care about your well‑being, providing benefits from Employee Assistance Programs to flexible time off policies.

• We reward our employees with competitive salary, bonus potential, equity and Employee Stock Purchase Program participation.

• Digital Ocean is an equal‑opportunity employer. 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.

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