Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Be among the first 25 applicants. 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 Copilots Engineering team is responsible for developing and maintaining Machine Learning and AI solutions leveraging our Gradient Platform. This team innovates in this new area to bring AI‑based solutions to cloud infrastructure operations, improving infrastructure engineering, workload performance, and system reliability while lowering costs. Building automations through DO’s Gradient Platform is imperative to keep our customers focused on developing their business.

We are seeking highly motivated and skilled engineers in US locations:
Austin, Boston, Denver, San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle. You will play a critical role to ensure product experiences at all stages of the developers' journeys enable a DO‑simple method to scale their business.
Join a team providing smooth operation of the AI solutions, technical support, managing operations, and driving efficiency through automation. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of building a new team, developing in the fast‑paced AI market, and making a significant impact on our company's growth.

Responsibilities

• Develop gRPC APIs written in Go to deliver solutions to target customer’s Jobs To Be Done (JTBD).

• Collaborate with the team to define OKRs, driven by our product strategy, and develop roadmap items to successfully deliver on Key Results.

• Contribute to authoring technical documents to deliver on feature development.

• Develop and improve AI Agent performance, correctness, and knowledge bases.

• Maintain and contribute to operational excellence and the stability of the platform.

• Contribute to quality assurance tooling and synthetic testing to proactively identify and address potential customer‑impacting issues.

• Collaborate with product teams on existing and new product launches to enable seamless integrations of services.

• Document processes and customer instructions.

Qualifications / What You’ll Add To Digital Ocean

• Strong technical aptitude and problem‑solving skills.

• Proficiency in Go to develop gRPC and REST APIs.

• Hands‑on knowledge of microservices and distributed systems, including Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, MySQL, and Redis.

• Experience utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop agentic solutions.

• Strong interest in direct collaboration with customers to define their key Jobs To Be Done, and translate them into features.

• Excellent written and spoken communication and collaboration skills.

• Author technical documents in architecture and task definition.

• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.

• A proactive and detail‑oriented approach.

Compensation Range

• $114,160 – $142,700

• This is a remote role.

Why You’ll Like Working for Digital Ocean

• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be part of a cutting‑edge technology company with an upward trajectory, proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.

• We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career and work with some of the smartest people in the industry. Our organizational development team will provide resources for continuous growth and learning.

• We care about your well‑being. Regardless of your location, we provide a competitive array of benefits, including an Employee Assistance Program, local employee meetups, flexible time‑off policy, and more.

• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined by company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation, including…