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Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/MLDo the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Join a high‐caliber community building the simplest, most scalable cloud on the market. If you think big, move fast, and thrive in a bold, high‐growth environment, you’ll fit right in. We win together—learning, having fun, and delivering real impact for the dreamers and builders we serve.We’re hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to build end‐to‐end features that make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.The AI Application Platform team builds AI and agentic applications across modalities—LLMs, images, audio, and video—on top of DigitalOcean’s high‐performance inference engine. Our mission is to keep the latest state‐of‐the‐art models available at peak performance. We’re moving fast to build the next generation of AI applications and platform workflows at DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a teamDrive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale AI application services such as ADK, agentic tools
- Maintain and develop APIs, MCPs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UXBuild and scale products to achieve operational excellenceIndependently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Partner with SRE/DevOps on reliability, observability, incident response, and deployment workflows
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, tracing, insights, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teamsKnowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or GoDesign of cloud ready systems and architectures.
Compensation Range:
- $184,000 - $231,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7617
#LI-Remote
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/MLDo the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Join a high‐caliber community building the simplest, most scalable cloud on the market. If you think big, move fast, and thrive in a bold, high‐growth environment, you’ll fit right in. We win together—learning, having fun, and delivering real impact for the dreamers and builders we serve.We’re hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to build end‐to‐end features that make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.The AI Application Platform team builds AI and agentic applications across modalities—LLMs, images, audio, and video—on top of DigitalOcean’s high‐performance inference engine. Our mission is to keep the latest state‐of‐the‐art models available at peak performance. We’re moving fast to build the next generation of AI applications and platform workflows at DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a teamDrive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale AI application services such as ADK, agentic tools
- Maintain and develop APIs, MCPs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UXBuild and scale products to achieve operational excellenceIndependently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Partner with SRE/DevOps on reliability, observability, incident response, and deployment workflows
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, tracing, insights, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teamsKnowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or GoDesign of cloud ready systems and architectures.
Compensation Range:
- $184,000 - $231,000
*This is a hybrid role
JR: 2026-7617
#LI-Hybrid
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/MLDo the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Join a high‐caliber community building the simplest, most scalable cloud on the market. If you think big, move fast, and thrive in a bold, high‐growth environment, you’ll fit right in. We win together—learning, having fun, and delivering real impact for the dreamers and builders we serve.We’re hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to build end‐to‐end features that make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.The AI Application Platform team builds AI and agentic applications across modalities—LLMs, images, audio, and video—on top of DigitalOcean’s high‐performance inference engine. Our mission is to keep the latest state‐of‐the‐art models available at peak performance. We’re moving fast to build the next generation of AI applications and platform workflows at DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a teamDrive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale AI application services such as ADK, agentic tools
- Maintain and develop APIs, MCPs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UXBuild and scale products to achieve operational excellenceIndependently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Partner with SRE/DevOps on reliability, observability, incident response, and deployment workflows
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, tracing, insights, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teamsKnowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or GoDesign of cloud ready systems and architectures.
Compensation Range:
- $184,000 - $231,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7617
#LI-Remote
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/MLDo the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Join a high‐caliber community building the simplest, most scalable cloud on the market. If you think big, move fast, and thrive in a bold, high‐growth environment, you’ll fit right in. We win together—learning, having fun, and delivering real impact for the dreamers and builders we serve.We’re hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to build end‐to‐end features that make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.The AI Application Platform team builds AI and agentic applications across modalities—LLMs, images, audio, and video—on top of DigitalOcean’s high‐performance inference engine. Our mission is to keep the latest state‐of‐the‐art models available at peak performance. We’re moving fast to build the next generation of AI applications and platform workflows at DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a teamDrive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale AI application services such as ADK, agentic tools
- Maintain and develop APIs, MCPs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UXBuild and scale products to achieve operational excellenceIndependently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Partner with SRE/DevOps on reliability, observability, incident response, and deployment workflows
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, tracing, insights, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teamsKnowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or GoDesign of cloud ready systems and architectures.
Compensation Range:
- $184,000 - $231,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7617
#LI-Remote
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer II - AI/MLDo the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Join a high‐caliber community building the simplest, most scalable cloud on the market. If you think big, move fast, and thrive in a bold, high‐growth environment, you’ll fit right in. We win together—learning, having fun, and delivering real impact for the dreamers and builders we serve.We’re hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to build end‐to‐end features that make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.The AI Application Platform team builds AI and agentic applications across modalities—LLMs, images, audio, and video—on top of DigitalOcean’s high‐performance inference engine. Our mission is to keep the latest state‐of‐the‐art models available at peak performance. We’re moving fast to build the next generation of AI applications and platform workflows at DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a teamDrive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale AI application services such as ADK, agentic tools
- Maintain and develop APIs, MCPs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UXBuild and scale products to achieve operational excellenceIndependently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Partner with SRE/DevOps on reliability, observability, incident response, and deployment workflows
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, tracing, insights, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teamsKnowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or GoDesign of cloud ready systems and architectures.
Compensation Range:
- $184,000 - $231,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7617
#LI-Remote
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Software Engineer II - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.
The AI/ML team is responsible for building an AI platform to manage OSS and custom models across modalities (LLMs, images, audios, videos) on top of a high-performance inference engine, to ensure the latest SOTA models are always available at peak performance. We’re a fast-paced team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale model services such as inference, fine-tuning, model benchmarks and evaluations
- Maintain and develop APIs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UX
- Build and scale products to achieve operational excellence
- Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teams
- Knowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or Go
Compensation Range:
- $167,200 - $209,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7446
#LI-Remote
#LI-SK1
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
We want people who are passionate about taking complex concepts and providing a simple and accessible experience for users.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.
The AI/ML team is responsible for building an AI platform to manage OSS and custom models across modalities (LLMs, images, audios, videos) on top of a high-performance inference engine, to ensure the latest SOTA models are always available at peak performance. We’re a fast-paced team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale model services such as inference, fine-tuning, model benchmarks and evaluations
- Maintain and develop APIs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UX
- Build and scale products to achieve operational excellence
- Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 4+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teams
- Knowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or Go
Compensation Range:
- $154,400.00 - $193,000.00
*This is a hybrid role
JR: 2026-7447
#LI-Hybrid
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Software Engineer II - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.
The AI/ML team is responsible for building an AI platform to manage OSS and custom models across modalities (LLMs, images, audios, videos) on top of a high-performance inference engine, to ensure the latest SOTA models are always available at peak performance. We’re a fast-paced team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale model services such as inference, fine-tuning, model benchmarks and evaluations
- Maintain and develop APIs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UX
- Build and scale products to achieve operational excellence
- Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teams
- Knowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or Go
Compensation Range:
- $167,200 - $209,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7446
#LI-Remote
#LI-SK1
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
We want people who are passionate about taking complex concepts and providing a simple and accessible experience for users.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.
The AI/ML team is responsible for building an AI platform to manage OSS and custom models across modalities (LLMs, images, audios, videos) on top of a high-performance inference engine, to ensure the latest SOTA models are always available at peak performance. We’re a fast-paced team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale model services such as inference, fine-tuning, model benchmarks and evaluations
- Maintain and develop APIs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UX
- Build and scale products to achieve operational excellence
- Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 4+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teams
- Knowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or Go
Compensation Range:
- $154,400.00 - $193,000.00
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7447
#LI-Remote
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Software Engineer II - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.
The AI/ML team is responsible for building an AI platform to manage OSS and custom models across modalities (LLMs, images, audios, videos) on top of a high-performance inference engine, to ensure the latest SOTA models are always available at peak performance. We’re a fast-paced team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale model services such as inference, fine-tuning, model benchmarks and evaluations
- Maintain and develop APIs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UX
- Build and scale products to achieve operational excellence
- Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teams
- Knowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or Go
Compensation Range:
- $167,200 - $209,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7446
#LI-Remote
#LI-SK1
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
We want people who are passionate about taking complex concepts and providing a simple and accessible experience for users.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.
The AI/ML team is responsible for building an AI platform to manage OSS and custom models across modalities (LLMs, images, audios, videos) on top of a high-performance inference engine, to ensure the latest SOTA models are always available at peak performance. We’re a fast-paced team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale model services such as inference, fine-tuning, model benchmarks and evaluations
- Maintain and develop APIs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UX
- Build and scale products to achieve operational excellence
- Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 4+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teams
- Knowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or Go
Compensation Range:
- $154,400.00 - $193,000.00
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7447
#LI-Remote
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Software Engineer II - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.
The AI/ML team is responsible for building an AI platform to manage OSS and custom models across modalities (LLMs, images, audios, videos) on top of a high-performance inference engine, to ensure the latest SOTA models are always available at peak performance. We’re a fast-paced team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale model services such as inference, fine-tuning, model benchmarks and evaluations
- Maintain and develop APIs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UX
- Build and scale products to achieve operational excellence
- Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teams
- Knowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or Go
Compensation Range:
- $167,200 - $209,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7446
#LI-Remote
#LI-SK1
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
We want people who are passionate about taking complex concepts and providing a simple and accessible experience for users.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.
The AI/ML team is responsible for building an AI platform to manage OSS and custom models across modalities (LLMs, images, audios, videos) on top of a high-performance inference engine, to ensure the latest SOTA models are always available at peak performance. We’re a fast-paced team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale model services such as inference, fine-tuning, model benchmarks and evaluations
- Maintain and develop APIs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UX
- Build and scale products to achieve operational excellence
- Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 4+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teams
- Knowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or Go
Compensation Range:
- $154,400.00 - $193,000.00
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7447
#LI-Remote
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
We want people who are passionate about taking complex concepts and providing a simple and accessible experience for users.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.
The AI/ML team is responsible for building an AI platform to manage OSS and custom models across modalities (LLMs, images, audios, videos) on top of a high-performance inference engine, to ensure the latest SOTA models are always available at peak performance. We’re a fast-paced team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale model services such as inference, fine-tuning, model benchmarks and evaluations
- Maintain and develop APIs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UX
- Build and scale products to achieve operational excellence
- Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 4+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teams
- Knowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or Go
Compensation Range:
- $154,400.00 - $193,000.00
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7447
#LI-Remote
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Software Engineer II - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.
The AI/ML team is responsible for building an AI platform to manage OSS and custom models across modalities (LLMs, images, audios, videos) on top of a high-performance inference engine, to ensure the latest SOTA models are always available at peak performance. We’re a fast-paced team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Python, and Go to build and scale model services such as inference, fine-tuning, model benchmarks and evaluations
- Maintain and develop APIs and SDKs
- Collaborate on design and UX
- Build and scale products to achieve operational excellence
- Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Experience with ML platforms, AI techniques (e.g., LLMs, multimodal, large vision models) or with genAI-related concepts (e.g., evaluations, language modeling, computer vision)
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 8+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling production-grade systems
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities, especially for technical teams
- Knowledge of API standards including REST, Python, or Go
Compensation Range:
- $167,200 - $209,000
*This is a hybrid role
JR: 2026-7446
#LI-Hybrid
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Principal Software Engineer (Gradient AI)
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
Scope and mission:
- Drive the design and operation of Gradient AI platform, focusing on delivering a simple and innovative agent development experience with best of breed scale, performance, and predictability.
- Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across both backend systems and customer-facing interactions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and Build
- Design and evolve the architecture for our agent development experience including code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions.
- Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
- Manage and evolve our benchmarking system to continuously raise the bar on our experience.
- Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery.
- Technical Leadership
- Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the AI/ML engineering teams.
- Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning.
- Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team’s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps.
- Guide customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) to shape AI modernization initiatives via agents.
- Reliability, Performance & Scaling
- Lead Operations Excellence for our Agent development platform, establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while raising the bar.
- Oversee availability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
- Drive AI-driven automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
- Innovation & Future Roadmapping
- Drive development of internal tooling leveraging agents across the company, contributing towards increased efficiency and quality across all aspects of engineering.
- Serve as subject matter expert on new agent development paradigms and lead implementation of mechanisms to productize them.
Qualifications:
- Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade AI/ML platforms using the latest GenAI and Agent-development technologies.
- Technical Experience: 10+ years in designing and building applications on the cloud with 5+ years experience in AI/ML platforms
- Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
- Operational excellence: Expertise in driving operational excellence via automation and best practices.
- Communication & Mentoring: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams.
Compensation Range:
- $227,040 - $283,800
*This is a remote role
#LI-Remote
#LI-SK1
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
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Principal Software Engineer (Gradient AI)
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
Scope and mission:
- Drive the design and operation of Gradient AI platform, focusing on delivering a simple and innovative agent development experience with best of breed scale, performance, and predictability.
- Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across both backend systems and customer-facing interactions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and Build
- Design and evolve the architecture for our agent development experience including code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions.
- Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
- Manage and evolve our benchmarking system to continuously raise the bar on our experience.
- Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery.
- Technical Leadership
- Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the AI/ML engineering teams.
- Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning.
- Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team’s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps.
- Guide customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) to shape AI modernization initiatives via agents.
- Reliability, Performance & Scaling
- Lead Operations Excellence for our Agent development platform, establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while raising the bar.
- Oversee availability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
- Drive AI-driven automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
- Innovation & Future Roadmapping
- Drive development of internal tooling leveraging agents across the company, contributing towards increased efficiency and quality across all aspects of engineering.
- Serve as subject matter expert on new agent development paradigms and lead implementation of mechanisms to productize them.
Qualifications:
- Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade AI/ML platforms using the latest GenAI and Agent-development technologies.
- Technical Experience: 10+ years in designing and building applications on the cloud with 5+ years experience in AI/ML platforms
- Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
- Operational excellence: Expertise in driving operational excellence via automation and best practices.
- Communication & Mentoring: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams.
Compensation Range:
- $272,448 - $340,560
*This is a remote role
#LI-Remote
#LI-SK1
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Principal Software Engineer (Gradient AI)
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
Scope and mission:
- Drive the design and operation of Gradient AI platform, focusing on delivering a simple and innovative agent development experience with best of breed scale, performance, and predictability.
- Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across both backend systems and customer-facing interactions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and Build
- Design and evolve the architecture for our agent development experience including code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions.
- Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
- Manage and evolve our benchmarking system to continuously raise the bar on our experience.
- Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery.
- Technical Leadership
- Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the AI/ML engineering teams.
- Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning.
- Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team’s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps.
- Guide customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) to shape AI modernization initiatives via agents.
- Reliability, Performance & Scaling
- Lead Operations Excellence for our Agent development platform, establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while raising the bar.
- Oversee availability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
- Drive AI-driven automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
- Innovation & Future Roadmapping
- Drive development of internal tooling leveraging agents across the company, contributing towards increased efficiency and quality across all aspects of engineering.
- Serve as subject matter expert on new agent development paradigms and lead implementation of mechanisms to productize them.
Qualifications:
- Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade AI/ML platforms using the latest GenAI and Agent-development technologies.
- Technical Experience: 10+ years in designing and building applications on the cloud with 5+ years experience in AI/ML platforms
- Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
- Operational excellence: Expertise in driving operational excellence via automation and best practices.
- Communication & Mentoring: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams.
Compensation Range:
- $227,040 - $283,800
*This is a hybrid role
JR: 2025-7060
#LI-Hybrid
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Principal Software Engineer (Gradient AI)
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
Scope and mission:
- Drive the design and operation of Gradient AI platform, focusing on delivering a simple and innovative agent development experience with best of breed scale, performance, and predictability.
- Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across both backend systems and customer-facing interactions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and Build
- Design and evolve the architecture for our agent development experience including code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions.
- Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
- Manage and evolve our benchmarking system to continuously raise the bar on our experience.
- Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery.
- Technical Leadership
- Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the AI/ML engineering teams.
- Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning.
- Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team’s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps.
- Guide customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) to shape AI modernization initiatives via agents.
- Reliability, Performance & Scaling
- Lead Operations Excellence for our Agent development platform, establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while raising the bar.
- Oversee availability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
- Drive AI-driven automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
- Innovation & Future Roadmapping
- Drive development of internal tooling leveraging agents across the company, contributing towards increased efficiency and quality across all aspects of engineering.
- Serve as subject matter expert on new agent development paradigms and lead implementation of mechanisms to productize them.
Qualifications:
- Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade AI/ML platforms using the latest GenAI and Agent-development technologies.
- Technical Experience: 10+ years in designing and building applications on the cloud with 5+ years experience in AI/ML platforms
- Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
- Operational excellence: Expertise in driving operational excellence via automation and best practices.
- Communication & Mentoring: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams.
Compensation Range:
- $227,040 - $283,800
*This is a remote role
#LI-Remote
#LI-SK1
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Principal Software Engineer (Gradient AI)
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
Scope and mission:
- Drive the design and operation of Gradient AI platform, focusing on delivering a simple and innovative agent development experience with best of breed scale, performance, and predictability.
- Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across both backend systems and customer-facing interactions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and Build
- Design and evolve the architecture for our agent development experience including code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions.
- Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
- Manage and evolve our benchmarking system to continuously raise the bar on our experience.
- Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery.
- Technical Leadership
- Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the AI/ML engineering teams.
- Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning.
- Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team’s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps.
- Guide customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) to shape AI modernization initiatives via agents.
- Reliability, Performance & Scaling
- Lead Operations Excellence for our Agent development platform, establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while raising the bar.
- Oversee availability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
- Drive AI-driven automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
- Innovation & Future Roadmapping
- Drive development of internal tooling leveraging agents across the company, contributing towards increased efficiency and quality across all aspects of engineering.
- Serve as subject matter expert on new agent development paradigms and lead implementation of mechanisms to productize them.
Qualifications:
- Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade AI/ML platforms using the latest GenAI and Agent-development technologies.
- Technical Experience: 10+ years in designing and building applications on the cloud with 5+ years experience in AI/ML platforms
- Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
- Operational excellence: Expertise in driving operational excellence via automation and best practices.
- Communication & Mentoring: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams.
Compensation Range:
- $227,040 - $283,800
*This is a remote role
#LI-Remote
#LI-SK1
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean
Senior Software Engineer I - AI/ML
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey 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.
We want people who are passionate about taking complex concepts and providing a simple and accessible experience for users.We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone.The Gradient Platform team is responsible for creating tools so that developers can easily create AI Agents for real world problems. We’re a fast-pace team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Do:
- Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Typescript, React, GraphQL, Python, and Go
- Build UI components, libraries, tools, and services that power platform
- Maintain and develop the Go and GraphQL API
- Collaborate on design and UX
- Participate and support in operational excellence
- Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Strong interest in development platforms, Data Engineering, MLOps, AI, CI/CD, infrastructure or making products for technical teams
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 5+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building UI component libraries, design systems, and tools using TypeScript
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
*This job is located in Hyderabad, India
#LI-Hybrid
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 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.
- DigitalOcean 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.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DigitalOcean