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Principal Software Engineer (PaaS)
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’re looking for a Principal Engineer to drive the technical direction and architecture of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) at DigitalOcean. Our mission is to make deploying, scaling, and managing applications as simple and seamless as possible for developers around the world—from first deploy to internet scale.
As a Principal Engineer on the PaaS team, you’ll play a key role in designing and building the next generation of cloud-native services such as App Platform, Functions, and CI/CD. You’ll architect systems that power our global infrastructure, partner closely with engineering and product teams across the company, and mentor engineers to level up the entire organization. This is a unique opportunity to shape how developers build and ship software on a platform purpose-built for simplicity and scale.
We’re looking for someone who can span technical strategy and hands-on execution—someone who thrives on solving complex distributed problems and multiplying the impact of everyone around them.
What You’ll Do:
- Architect and guide the implementation of high-scale, reliable, and secure systems that underpin our PaaS offerings.
- Drive technical direction and make foundational decisions on system design, scalability, observability, and developer experience.
- Partner with product managers and engineering leadership to define short- and long-term roadmap priorities.
- Identify platform bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and future risks—and design solutions that proactively address them.
- Collaborate across teams to ensure seamless integration between platform services, infrastructure, and developer tools.
- Mentor engineers at all levels and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, inclusivity, and impact.
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies, patterns, and best practices in the PaaS, serverless, and cloud-native ecosystem.
Key Metrics:
- Platform availability and system performance
- Developer adoption and satisfaction
- Technical debt reduction and architectural clarity
- Engineering velocity and cross-team alignment
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- 11+ years of experience designing and building distributed systems at scale.
- Expertise in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, C++, Java) and strong fundamentals in systems architecture and infrastructure.
- Proven experience leading the design of large-scale services used by 1000s (or millions) of customers.
- Passion for mentoring and elevating those around you—technical leadership is about multiplying impact.
Compensation Range:
- $227,040 - $283,800
*This is a remote role
JR: 2025-7225
#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 (PaaS)
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’re looking for a Principal Engineer to drive the technical direction and architecture of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) at DigitalOcean. Our mission is to make deploying, scaling, and managing applications as simple and seamless as possible for developers around the world—from first deploy to internet scale.
As a Principal Engineer on the PaaS team, you’ll play a key role in designing and building the next generation of cloud-native services such as App Platform, Functions, and CI/CD. You’ll architect systems that power our global infrastructure, partner closely with engineering and product teams across the company, and mentor engineers to level up the entire organization. This is a unique opportunity to shape how developers build and ship software on a platform purpose-built for simplicity and scale.
We’re looking for someone who can span technical strategy and hands-on execution—someone who thrives on solving complex distributed problems and multiplying the impact of everyone around them.
What You’ll Do:
- Architect and guide the implementation of high-scale, reliable, and secure systems that underpin our PaaS offerings.
- Drive technical direction and make foundational decisions on system design, scalability, observability, and developer experience.
- Partner with product managers and engineering leadership to define short- and long-term roadmap priorities.
- Identify platform bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and future risks—and design solutions that proactively address them.
- Collaborate across teams to ensure seamless integration between platform services, infrastructure, and developer tools.
- Mentor engineers at all levels and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, inclusivity, and impact.
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies, patterns, and best practices in the PaaS, serverless, and cloud-native ecosystem.
Key Metrics:
- Platform availability and system performance
- Developer adoption and satisfaction
- Technical debt reduction and architectural clarity
- Engineering velocity and cross-team alignment
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- 11+ years of experience designing and building distributed systems at scale.
- Expertise in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, C++, Java) and strong fundamentals in systems architecture and infrastructure.
- Proven experience leading the design of large-scale services used by 1000s (or millions) of customers.
- Passion for mentoring and elevating those around you—technical leadership is about multiplying impact.
Compensation Range:
- $227,040 - $283,800
*This is a remote role
JR: 2025-7225
#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 (PaaS)
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’re looking for a Principal Engineer to drive the technical direction and architecture of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) at DigitalOcean. Our mission is to make deploying, scaling, and managing applications as simple and seamless as possible for developers around the world—from first deploy to internet scale.
As a Principal Engineer on the PaaS team, you’ll play a key role in designing and building the next generation of cloud-native services such as App Platform, Functions, and CI/CD. You’ll architect systems that power our global infrastructure, partner closely with engineering and product teams across the company, and mentor engineers to level up the entire organization. This is a unique opportunity to shape how developers build and ship software on a platform purpose-built for simplicity and scale.
We’re looking for someone who can span technical strategy and hands-on execution—someone who thrives on solving complex distributed problems and multiplying the impact of everyone around them.
What You’ll Do:
- Architect and guide the implementation of high-scale, reliable, and secure systems that underpin our PaaS offerings.
- Drive technical direction and make foundational decisions on system design, scalability, observability, and developer experience.
- Partner with product managers and engineering leadership to define short- and long-term roadmap priorities.
- Identify platform bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and future risks—and design solutions that proactively address them.
- Collaborate across teams to ensure seamless integration between platform services, infrastructure, and developer tools.
- Mentor engineers at all levels and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, inclusivity, and impact.
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies, patterns, and best practices in the PaaS, serverless, and cloud-native ecosystem.
Key Metrics:
- Platform availability and system performance
- Developer adoption and satisfaction
- Technical debt reduction and architectural clarity
- Engineering velocity and cross-team alignment
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- 11+ years of experience designing and building distributed systems at scale.
- Expertise in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, C++, Java) and strong fundamentals in systems architecture and infrastructure.
- Proven experience leading the design of large-scale services used by 1000s (or millions) of customers.
- Passion for mentoring and elevating those around you—technical leadership is about multiplying impact.
Compensation Range:
- $227,040 - $283,800
*This is a remote role
JR: 2025-7225
#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 (PaaS)
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’re looking for a Principal Engineer to drive the technical direction and architecture of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) at DigitalOcean. Our mission is to make deploying, scaling, and managing applications as simple and seamless as possible for developers around the world—from first deploy to internet scale.
As a Principal Engineer on the PaaS team, you’ll play a key role in designing and building the next generation of cloud-native services such as App Platform, Functions, and CI/CD. You’ll architect systems that power our global infrastructure, partner closely with engineering and product teams across the company, and mentor engineers to level up the entire organization. This is a unique opportunity to shape how developers build and ship software on a platform purpose-built for simplicity and scale.
We’re looking for someone who can span technical strategy and hands-on execution—someone who thrives on solving complex distributed problems and multiplying the impact of everyone around them.
What You’ll Do:
- Architect and guide the implementation of high-scale, reliable, and secure systems that underpin our PaaS offerings.
- Drive technical direction and make foundational decisions on system design, scalability, observability, and developer experience.
- Partner with product managers and engineering leadership to define short- and long-term roadmap priorities.
- Identify platform bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and future risks—and design solutions that proactively address them.
- Collaborate across teams to ensure seamless integration between platform services, infrastructure, and developer tools.
- Mentor engineers at all levels and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, inclusivity, and impact.
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies, patterns, and best practices in the PaaS, serverless, and cloud-native ecosystem.
Key Metrics:
- Platform availability and system performance
- Developer adoption and satisfaction
- Technical debt reduction and architectural clarity
- Engineering velocity and cross-team alignment
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- 11+ years of experience designing and building distributed systems at scale.
- Expertise in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, C++, Java) and strong fundamentals in systems architecture and infrastructure.
- Proven experience leading the design of large-scale services used by 1000s (or millions) of customers.
- Passion for mentoring and elevating those around you—technical leadership is about multiplying impact.
Compensation Range:
- $227,040 - $283,800
*This is a remote role
JR: 2025-7225
#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 (PaaS)
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’re looking for a Principal Engineer to drive the technical direction and architecture of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) at DigitalOcean. Our mission is to make deploying, scaling, and managing applications as simple and seamless as possible for developers around the world—from first deploy to internet scale.
As a Principal Engineer on the PaaS team, you’ll play a key role in designing and building the next generation of cloud-native services such as App Platform, Functions, and CI/CD. You’ll architect systems that power our global infrastructure, partner closely with engineering and product teams across the company, and mentor engineers to level up the entire organization. This is a unique opportunity to shape how developers build and ship software on a platform purpose-built for simplicity and scale.
We’re looking for someone who can span technical strategy and hands-on execution—someone who thrives on solving complex distributed problems and multiplying the impact of everyone around them.
What You’ll Do:
- Architect and guide the implementation of high-scale, reliable, and secure systems that underpin our PaaS offerings.
- Drive technical direction and make foundational decisions on system design, scalability, observability, and developer experience.
- Partner with product managers and engineering leadership to define short- and long-term roadmap priorities.
- Identify platform bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and future risks—and design solutions that proactively address them.
- Collaborate across teams to ensure seamless integration between platform services, infrastructure, and developer tools.
- Mentor engineers at all levels and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, inclusivity, and impact.
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies, patterns, and best practices in the PaaS, serverless, and cloud-native ecosystem.
Key Metrics:
- Platform availability and system performance
- Developer adoption and satisfaction
- Technical debt reduction and architectural clarity
- Engineering velocity and cross-team alignment
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- 11+ years of experience designing and building distributed systems at scale.
- Expertise in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, C++, Java) and strong fundamentals in systems architecture and infrastructure.
- Proven experience leading the design of large-scale services used by 1000s (or millions) of customers.
- Passion for mentoring and elevating those around you—technical leadership is about multiplying impact.
Compensation Range:
- $227,040 - $283,800
*This is a hybrid role
JR: 2025-7225
#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 Engineer I, Managed Kubernetes
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 Engineer I who is passionate about Kubernetes and excited about the opportunity to take our managed Kubernetes solution (DOKS) to the next level.
As a Senior Engineer I at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role is on the DOKS team that is in charge of DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes offering.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
- Contribute to our growing GPU offering to support scalable inference workloads at DigitalOcean.
- Develop back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
- Design back-end services and author engineering design documents.
- Raise the bar for Operational Excellence.
- Independently lead projects.
- Navigate the complexity of distributed systems and operate them in production.
- Break the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
- Run experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
- Contribute to and maintain open-source projects, and collaborate with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
- Find emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and show your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.
- Regularly interact with important customers to understand their needs in the product.
- Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architecture, implementation, design patterns, and processes while being able to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
- Work on teams that operate across multiple time zones.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and Go.
- Experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale.
- Ability to drive complex projects from inception through completion.
Compensation Range:
$139,200 - $174,000
*This is a remote role
#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 Engineer II, Managed Kubernetes
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 Engineer II who is passionate about Kubernetes and excited about the opportunity to take our managed Kubernetes solution (DOKS) to the next level.
As a Senior Engineer II at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role is on the DOKS team that is in charge of DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes offering.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
- Contribute to our growing GPU offering to support scalable inference workloads at DigitalOcean.
- Develop back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
- Design back-end services and author engineering design documents.
- Raise the bar for Operational Excellence.
- Independently lead projects.
- Navigate the complexity of distributed systems and operate them in production.
- Break the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
- Run experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
- Contribute to and maintain open-source projects, and collaborate with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
- Find emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and show your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.
- Regularly interact with important customers to understand their needs in the product.
- Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architecture, implementation, design patterns, and processes while being able to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
- Work on teams that operate across multiple time zones.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and Go.
- Experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale.
- Ability to drive complex projects from inception through completion.
Compensation Range:
- $167,200 - $209,000
*This is a hybrid role
JR: 2025-7104
#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 Engineer II, Managed Kubernetes
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 Engineer II who is passionate about Kubernetes and excited about the opportunity to take our managed Kubernetes solution (DOKS) to the next level.
As a Senior Engineer II at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role is on the DOKS team that is in charge of DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes offering.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
- Contribute to our growing GPU offering to support scalable inference workloads at DigitalOcean.
- Develop back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
- Design back-end services and author engineering design documents.
- Raise the bar for Operational Excellence.
- Independently lead projects.
- Navigate the complexity of distributed systems and operate them in production.
- Break the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
- Run experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
- Contribute to and maintain open-source projects, and collaborate with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
- Find emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and show your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.
- Regularly interact with important customers to understand their needs in the product.
- Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architecture, implementation, design patterns, and processes while being able to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
- Work on teams that operate across multiple time zones.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and Go.
- Experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale.
- Ability to drive complex projects from inception through completion.
Compensation Range:
- $167,200 - $209,000
*This is a remote role
#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 Engineer II, Managed Kubernetes
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 Engineer II who is passionate about Kubernetes and excited about the opportunity to take our managed Kubernetes solution (DOKS) to the next level.
As a Senior Engineer II at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role is on the DOKS team that is in charge of DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes offering.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
- Contribute to our growing GPU offering to support scalable inference workloads at DigitalOcean.
- Develop back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
- Design back-end services and author engineering design documents.
- Raise the bar for Operational Excellence.
- Independently lead projects.
- Navigate the complexity of distributed systems and operate them in production.
- Break the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
- Run experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
- Contribute to and maintain open-source projects, and collaborate with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
- Find emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and show your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.
- Regularly interact with important customers to understand their needs in the product.
- Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architecture, implementation, design patterns, and processes while being able to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
- Work on teams that operate across multiple time zones.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and Go.
- Experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale.
- Ability to drive complex projects from inception through completion.
Compensation Range:
- $167,200 - $209,000
*This is a remote role
#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 Engineer I, Managed Kubernetes
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 Engineer I who is passionate about Kubernetes and excited about the opportunity to take our managed Kubernetes solution (DOKS) to the next level.
As a Senior Engineer I at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role is on the DOKS team that is in charge of DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes offering.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
- Contribute to our growing GPU offering to support scalable inference workloads at DigitalOcean.
- Develop back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
- Design back-end services and author engineering design documents.
- Raise the bar for Operational Excellence.
- Independently lead projects.
- Navigate the complexity of distributed systems and operate them in production.
- Break the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
- Run experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
- Contribute to and maintain open-source projects, and collaborate with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
- Find emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and show your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.
- Regularly interact with important customers to understand their needs in the product.
- Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architecture, implementation, design patterns, and processes while being able to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
- Work on teams that operate across multiple time zones.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and Go.
- Experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale.
- Ability to drive complex projects from inception through completion.
Compensation Range:
$139,200 - $174,000
*This is a remote role
#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 Engineer II, Managed Kubernetes
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 Engineer II who is passionate about Kubernetes and excited about the opportunity to take our managed Kubernetes solution (DOKS) to the next level.
As a Senior Engineer II at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role is on the DOKS team that is in charge of DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes offering.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
- Contribute to our growing GPU offering to support scalable inference workloads at DigitalOcean.
- Develop back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
- Design back-end services and author engineering design documents.
- Raise the bar for Operational Excellence.
- Independently lead projects.
- Navigate the complexity of distributed systems and operate them in production.
- Break the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
- Run experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
- Contribute to and maintain open-source projects, and collaborate with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
- Find emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and show your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.
- Regularly interact with important customers to understand their needs in the product.
- Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architecture, implementation, design patterns, and processes while being able to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
- Work on teams that operate across multiple time zones.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and Go.
- Experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale.
- Ability to drive complex projects from inception through completion.
Compensation Range:
- $167,200 - $209,000
*This is a remote role
#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 Engineer I, Managed Kubernetes
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 Engineer I who is passionate about Kubernetes and excited about the opportunity to take our managed Kubernetes solution (DOKS) to the next level.
As a Senior Engineer I at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role is on the DOKS team that is in charge of DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes offering.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
- Contribute to our growing GPU offering to support scalable inference workloads at DigitalOcean.
- Develop back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
- Design back-end services and author engineering design documents.
- Raise the bar for Operational Excellence.
- Independently lead projects.
- Navigate the complexity of distributed systems and operate them in production.
- Break the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
- Run experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
- Contribute to and maintain open-source projects, and collaborate with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
- Find emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and show your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.
- Regularly interact with important customers to understand their needs in the product.
- Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architecture, implementation, design patterns, and processes while being able to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
- Work on teams that operate across multiple time zones.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and Go.
- Experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale.
- Ability to drive complex projects from inception through completion.
Compensation Range:
$139,200 - $174,000
*This is a remote role
#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 Engineer I, Managed Kubernetes
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 Engineer I who is passionate about Kubernetes and excited about the opportunity to take our managed Kubernetes solution (DOKS) to the next level.
As a Senior Engineer I at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role is on the DOKS team that is in charge of DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes offering.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
- Contribute to our growing GPU offering to support scalable inference workloads at DigitalOcean.
- Develop back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
- Design back-end services and author engineering design documents.
- Raise the bar for Operational Excellence.
- Independently lead projects.
- Navigate the complexity of distributed systems and operate them in production.
- Break the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
- Run experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
- Contribute to and maintain open-source projects, and collaborate with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
- Find emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and show your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.
- Regularly interact with important customers to understand their needs in the product.
- Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architecture, implementation, design patterns, and processes while being able to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
- Work on teams that operate across multiple time zones.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and Go.
- Experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale.
- Ability to drive complex projects from inception through completion.
Compensation Range:
$139,200 - $174,000
*This is a remote role
#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 Engineer II, Managed Kubernetes
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 Engineer II who is passionate about Kubernetes and excited about the opportunity to take our managed Kubernetes solution (DOKS) to the next level.
As a Senior Engineer II at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role is on the DOKS team that is in charge of DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes offering.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
- Contribute to our growing GPU offering to support scalable inference workloads at DigitalOcean.
- Develop back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
- Design back-end services and author engineering design documents.
- Raise the bar for Operational Excellence.
- Independently lead projects.
- Navigate the complexity of distributed systems and operate them in production.
- Break the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
- Run experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
- Contribute to and maintain open-source projects, and collaborate with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
- Find emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and show your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.
- Regularly interact with important customers to understand their needs in the product.
- Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architecture, implementation, design patterns, and processes while being able to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
- Work on teams that operate across multiple time zones.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and Go.
- Experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale.
- Ability to drive complex projects from inception through completion.
Compensation Range:
- $167,200 - $209,000
*This is a remote role
#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 Engineer I, Managed Kubernetes
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 Engineer I who is passionate about Kubernetes and excited about the opportunity to take our managed Kubernetes solution (DOKS) to the next level.
As a Senior Engineer I at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role is on the DOKS team that is in charge of DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes offering.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes product.
- Contribute to our growing GPU offering to support scalable inference workloads at DigitalOcean.
- Develop back-end gRPC services written in Go deployed on Kubernetes.
- Design back-end services and author engineering design documents.
- Raise the bar for Operational Excellence.
- Independently lead projects.
- Navigate the complexity of distributed systems and operate them in production.
- Break the design documents into actionable epics and stories with estimates.
- Run experiments to optimize user experience and increase adoption of DOKS.
- Contribute to and maintain open-source projects, and collaborate with our developer community through customer meetings, blogs, and podcasts.
- Find emerging tools, trends, and methodologies and show your team how to integrate them against existing systems and processes.
- Regularly interact with important customers to understand their needs in the product.
- Contribute meaningfully to discussions on architecture, implementation, design patterns, and processes while being able to succinctly convey ideas to peers and mentees.
- Work on teams that operate across multiple time zones.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and Go.
- Experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale.
- Ability to drive complex projects from inception through completion.
Compensation Range:
- $139,200 - $174,000
*This is a hybrid role
JR: 2025-6037
#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
VP Engineering, Data Cloud
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 building an AI-native Data Cloud and need a VP of Engineering who owns architecture, execution, and business outcomes end-to-end. The buck stops with this role for platform reliability, developer experience, and Data Cloud adoption.
DigitalOcean’s Data Cloud will power AI applications end-to-end—from data ingestion to real-time inference—enabling developers to build production-grade RAG systems, AI agents, and analytics workflows on a single, integrated platform. This role is responsible for delivering that platform by leveraging and extending DigitalOcean’s existing infrastructure, PaaS, and AI capabilities.
This is not a traditional data platform role. You will define and execute the strategy to move DigitalOcean up the stack—from infrastructure provider to a differentiated AI application and inference platform. Success will be measured through roadmap velocity, system reliability, developer adoption, and measurable business impact.
We are looking for a leader who translates strategy into shipped systems, with clear accountability for outcomes.
What You’ll Do:
Data Cloud Platform
Architecture and delivery of a unified platform spanning:
- Ingestion (connectors, CDC, streaming)
- Storage (object, OLAP, vector, graph)
- Processing (ELT pipelines, real-time and batch)
- Query & analytics (SQL, hybrid search, RAG)
- Governance (catalog, lineage, versioning, access control)
AI-Native Capabilities
- Knowledgebase-as-a-Service (RAG pipelines)
- Vector and hybrid retrieval systems
- Feature and embedding pipelines
- Real-time inference data paths
Product & Execution
- Deliver GA-grade services with strong SLAs, cost efficiency, and simplicity
- Drive roadmap aligned to Digital Native Enterprise (DNE) customers
- Establish and manage clear metrics: adoption, retention, ARPU, performance, reliability
Organizational Leadership
- Build and scale a high-performing global organization (US and India)
- Implement single-threaded ownership (STO) across services
- Partner deeply with Product, GTM, and Platform Engineering
What Success Looks Like (12 months)
- Launch a cohesive Data Cloud platform—not a collection of fragmented services
- Achieve meaningful adoption across AI-native workloads (RAG, inference, analytics)
- Reduce developer time-to-value from weeks to hours
- Establish clear differentiation versus hyperscalers on simplicity and cost
What You’ll Bring:
- Proven track record of building and operating cloud-scale data platforms (OLAP, lakehouse, streaming, or ML systems), with strong architectural judgment across storage, processing, and query layers
- Experience integrating open-source ecosystems (e.g., Spark, Airflow, dbt) into managed cloud services at scale
- Experience with AI/ML data pipelines (feature stores, embeddings, RAG)
- Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguity, make high-quality decisions with incomplete data, and drive multi-quarter execution with measurable outcomes
- Proven experience scaling engineering organizations and delivering under real-world constraints
Critical requirement:
You have personally driven complex distributed systems from concept to production—not just managed teams that did.
Why This Role Matters
The Data Cloud is the control plane for AI applications. If DigitalOcean gets this right, it becomes the platform where developers build and scale intelligent applications—not just where infrastructure runs. If not, it remains an interchangeable infrastructure.
Compensation Range:
- $279,200.00 - $349,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7683
#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
VP Engineering, Data Cloud
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 building an AI-native Data Cloud and need a VP of Engineering who owns architecture, execution, and business outcomes end-to-end. The buck stops with this role for platform reliability, developer experience, and Data Cloud adoption.
DigitalOcean’s Data Cloud will power AI applications end-to-end—from data ingestion to real-time inference—enabling developers to build production-grade RAG systems, AI agents, and analytics workflows on a single, integrated platform. This role is responsible for delivering that platform by leveraging and extending DigitalOcean’s existing infrastructure, PaaS, and AI capabilities.
This is not a traditional data platform role. You will define and execute the strategy to move DigitalOcean up the stack—from infrastructure provider to a differentiated AI application and inference platform. Success will be measured through roadmap velocity, system reliability, developer adoption, and measurable business impact.
We are looking for a leader who translates strategy into shipped systems, with clear accountability for outcomes.
What You’ll Do:
Data Cloud Platform
Architecture and delivery of a unified platform spanning:
- Ingestion (connectors, CDC, streaming)
- Storage (object, OLAP, vector, graph)
- Processing (ELT pipelines, real-time and batch)
- Query & analytics (SQL, hybrid search, RAG)
- Governance (catalog, lineage, versioning, access control)
AI-Native Capabilities
- Knowledgebase-as-a-Service (RAG pipelines)
- Vector and hybrid retrieval systems
- Feature and embedding pipelines
- Real-time inference data paths
Product & Execution
- Deliver GA-grade services with strong SLAs, cost efficiency, and simplicity
- Drive roadmap aligned to Digital Native Enterprise (DNE) customers
- Establish and manage clear metrics: adoption, retention, ARPU, performance, reliability
Organizational Leadership
- Build and scale a high-performing global organization (US and India)
- Implement single-threaded ownership (STO) across services
- Partner deeply with Product, GTM, and Platform Engineering
What Success Looks Like (12 months)
- Launch a cohesive Data Cloud platform—not a collection of fragmented services
- Achieve meaningful adoption across AI-native workloads (RAG, inference, analytics)
- Reduce developer time-to-value from weeks to hours
- Establish clear differentiation versus hyperscalers on simplicity and cost
What You’ll Bring:
- Proven track record of building and operating cloud-scale data platforms (OLAP, lakehouse, streaming, or ML systems), with strong architectural judgment across storage, processing, and query layers
- Experience integrating open-source ecosystems (e.g., Spark, Airflow, dbt) into managed cloud services at scale
- Experience with AI/ML data pipelines (feature stores, embeddings, RAG)
- Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguity, make high-quality decisions with incomplete data, and drive multi-quarter execution with measurable outcomes
- Proven experience scaling engineering organizations and delivering under real-world constraints
Critical requirement:
You have personally driven complex distributed systems from concept to production—not just managed teams that did.
Why This Role Matters
The Data Cloud is the control plane for AI applications. If DigitalOcean gets this right, it becomes the platform where developers build and scale intelligent applications—not just where infrastructure runs. If not, it remains an interchangeable infrastructure.
Compensation Range:
- $279,200.00 - $349,000
*This is a hybrid role
JR: 2026-7683
#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
VP Engineering, Data Cloud
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 building an AI-native Data Cloud and need a VP of Engineering who owns architecture, execution, and business outcomes end-to-end. The buck stops with this role for platform reliability, developer experience, and Data Cloud adoption.
DigitalOcean’s Data Cloud will power AI applications end-to-end—from data ingestion to real-time inference—enabling developers to build production-grade RAG systems, AI agents, and analytics workflows on a single, integrated platform. This role is responsible for delivering that platform by leveraging and extending DigitalOcean’s existing infrastructure, PaaS, and AI capabilities.
This is not a traditional data platform role. You will define and execute the strategy to move DigitalOcean up the stack—from infrastructure provider to a differentiated AI application and inference platform. Success will be measured through roadmap velocity, system reliability, developer adoption, and measurable business impact.
We are looking for a leader who translates strategy into shipped systems, with clear accountability for outcomes.
What You’ll Do:
Data Cloud Platform
Architecture and delivery of a unified platform spanning:
- Ingestion (connectors, CDC, streaming)
- Storage (object, OLAP, vector, graph)
- Processing (ELT pipelines, real-time and batch)
- Query & analytics (SQL, hybrid search, RAG)
- Governance (catalog, lineage, versioning, access control)
AI-Native Capabilities
- Knowledgebase-as-a-Service (RAG pipelines)
- Vector and hybrid retrieval systems
- Feature and embedding pipelines
- Real-time inference data paths
Product & Execution
- Deliver GA-grade services with strong SLAs, cost efficiency, and simplicity
- Drive roadmap aligned to Digital Native Enterprise (DNE) customers
- Establish and manage clear metrics: adoption, retention, ARPU, performance, reliability
Organizational Leadership
- Build and scale a high-performing global organization (US and India)
- Implement single-threaded ownership (STO) across services
- Partner deeply with Product, GTM, and Platform Engineering
What Success Looks Like (12 months)
- Launch a cohesive Data Cloud platform—not a collection of fragmented services
- Achieve meaningful adoption across AI-native workloads (RAG, inference, analytics)
- Reduce developer time-to-value from weeks to hours
- Establish clear differentiation versus hyperscalers on simplicity and cost
What You’ll Bring:
- Proven track record of building and operating cloud-scale data platforms (OLAP, lakehouse, streaming, or ML systems), with strong architectural judgment across storage, processing, and query layers
- Experience integrating open-source ecosystems (e.g., Spark, Airflow, dbt) into managed cloud services at scale
- Experience with AI/ML data pipelines (feature stores, embeddings, RAG)
- Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguity, make high-quality decisions with incomplete data, and drive multi-quarter execution with measurable outcomes
- Proven experience scaling engineering organizations and delivering under real-world constraints
Critical requirement:
You have personally driven complex distributed systems from concept to production—not just managed teams that did.
Why This Role Matters
The Data Cloud is the control plane for AI applications. If DigitalOcean gets this right, it becomes the platform where developers build and scale intelligent applications—not just where infrastructure runs. If not, it remains an interchangeable infrastructure.
Compensation Range:
- $279,200.00 - $349,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7683
#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
VP Engineering, Data Cloud
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 building an AI-native Data Cloud and need a VP of Engineering who owns architecture, execution, and business outcomes end-to-end. The buck stops with this role for platform reliability, developer experience, and Data Cloud adoption.
DigitalOcean’s Data Cloud will power AI applications end-to-end—from data ingestion to real-time inference—enabling developers to build production-grade RAG systems, AI agents, and analytics workflows on a single, integrated platform. This role is responsible for delivering that platform by leveraging and extending DigitalOcean’s existing infrastructure, PaaS, and AI capabilities.
This is not a traditional data platform role. You will define and execute the strategy to move DigitalOcean up the stack—from infrastructure provider to a differentiated AI application and inference platform. Success will be measured through roadmap velocity, system reliability, developer adoption, and measurable business impact.
We are looking for a leader who translates strategy into shipped systems, with clear accountability for outcomes.
What You’ll Do:
Data Cloud Platform
Architecture and delivery of a unified platform spanning:
- Ingestion (connectors, CDC, streaming)
- Storage (object, OLAP, vector, graph)
- Processing (ELT pipelines, real-time and batch)
- Query & analytics (SQL, hybrid search, RAG)
- Governance (catalog, lineage, versioning, access control)
AI-Native Capabilities
- Knowledgebase-as-a-Service (RAG pipelines)
- Vector and hybrid retrieval systems
- Feature and embedding pipelines
- Real-time inference data paths
Product & Execution
- Deliver GA-grade services with strong SLAs, cost efficiency, and simplicity
- Drive roadmap aligned to Digital Native Enterprise (DNE) customers
- Establish and manage clear metrics: adoption, retention, ARPU, performance, reliability
Organizational Leadership
- Build and scale a high-performing global organization (US and India)
- Implement single-threaded ownership (STO) across services
- Partner deeply with Product, GTM, and Platform Engineering
What Success Looks Like (12 months)
- Launch a cohesive Data Cloud platform—not a collection of fragmented services
- Achieve meaningful adoption across AI-native workloads (RAG, inference, analytics)
- Reduce developer time-to-value from weeks to hours
- Establish clear differentiation versus hyperscalers on simplicity and cost
What You’ll Bring:
- Proven track record of building and operating cloud-scale data platforms (OLAP, lakehouse, streaming, or ML systems), with strong architectural judgment across storage, processing, and query layers
- Experience integrating open-source ecosystems (e.g., Spark, Airflow, dbt) into managed cloud services at scale
- Experience with AI/ML data pipelines (feature stores, embeddings, RAG)
- Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguity, make high-quality decisions with incomplete data, and drive multi-quarter execution with measurable outcomes
- Proven experience scaling engineering organizations and delivering under real-world constraints
Critical requirement:
You have personally driven complex distributed systems from concept to production—not just managed teams that did.
Why This Role Matters
The Data Cloud is the control plane for AI applications. If DigitalOcean gets this right, it becomes the platform where developers build and scale intelligent applications—not just where infrastructure runs. If not, it remains an interchangeable infrastructure.
Compensation Range:
- $279,200.00 - $349,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7683
#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
VP Engineering, Data Cloud
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 building an AI-native Data Cloud and need a VP of Engineering who owns architecture, execution, and business outcomes end-to-end. The buck stops with this role for platform reliability, developer experience, and Data Cloud adoption.
DigitalOcean’s Data Cloud will power AI applications end-to-end—from data ingestion to real-time inference—enabling developers to build production-grade RAG systems, AI agents, and analytics workflows on a single, integrated platform. This role is responsible for delivering that platform by leveraging and extending DigitalOcean’s existing infrastructure, PaaS, and AI capabilities.
This is not a traditional data platform role. You will define and execute the strategy to move DigitalOcean up the stack—from infrastructure provider to a differentiated AI application and inference platform. Success will be measured through roadmap velocity, system reliability, developer adoption, and measurable business impact.
We are looking for a leader who translates strategy into shipped systems, with clear accountability for outcomes.
What You’ll Do:
Data Cloud Platform
Architecture and delivery of a unified platform spanning:
- Ingestion (connectors, CDC, streaming)
- Storage (object, OLAP, vector, graph)
- Processing (ELT pipelines, real-time and batch)
- Query & analytics (SQL, hybrid search, RAG)
- Governance (catalog, lineage, versioning, access control)
AI-Native Capabilities
- Knowledgebase-as-a-Service (RAG pipelines)
- Vector and hybrid retrieval systems
- Feature and embedding pipelines
- Real-time inference data paths
Product & Execution
- Deliver GA-grade services with strong SLAs, cost efficiency, and simplicity
- Drive roadmap aligned to Digital Native Enterprise (DNE) customers
- Establish and manage clear metrics: adoption, retention, ARPU, performance, reliability
Organizational Leadership
- Build and scale a high-performing global organization (US and India)
- Implement single-threaded ownership (STO) across services
- Partner deeply with Product, GTM, and Platform Engineering
What Success Looks Like (12 months)
- Launch a cohesive Data Cloud platform—not a collection of fragmented services
- Achieve meaningful adoption across AI-native workloads (RAG, inference, analytics)
- Reduce developer time-to-value from weeks to hours
- Establish clear differentiation versus hyperscalers on simplicity and cost
What You’ll Bring:
- Proven track record of building and operating cloud-scale data platforms (OLAP, lakehouse, streaming, or ML systems), with strong architectural judgment across storage, processing, and query layers
- Experience integrating open-source ecosystems (e.g., Spark, Airflow, dbt) into managed cloud services at scale
- Experience with AI/ML data pipelines (feature stores, embeddings, RAG)
- Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguity, make high-quality decisions with incomplete data, and drive multi-quarter execution with measurable outcomes
- Proven experience scaling engineering organizations and delivering under real-world constraints
Critical requirement:
You have personally driven complex distributed systems from concept to production—not just managed teams that did.
Why This Role Matters
The Data Cloud is the control plane for AI applications. If DigitalOcean gets this right, it becomes the platform where developers build and scale intelligent applications—not just where infrastructure runs. If not, it remains an interchangeable infrastructure.
Compensation Range:
- $279,200.00 - $349,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7683
#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
Principal Engineer (Managed Database Services)
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.
As a Principal Engineer you'll spearhead the design, development, and operation of scalable, high‑availability, and high-performance database platforms across relational and non-relational managed services (Managed MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, etc.) and scale-out variants that scale to petabytes of data. 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 of large-scale distributed database systems optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
- Architect solutions for storage engines, indexing, querying, caching, replication, and high availability, drawing from best practices in both relational and NoSQL paradigms.
- 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 database engineering teams.
- 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 define database solutions and migration strategies aligned with organizational goals
- Reliability, Performance & Scaling
- Lead Operations Excellence for database services, 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 for database platforms.
- Drive automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
- Innovation & Future Roadmapping
- Research and integrate advanced capabilities (e.g., AI‑assisted tooling, MCP protocols) to enhance developer workflows and metadata accessibility across database types.
Qualifications:
- Technical Experience: ≥ 12–15 years in distributed systems architecture, database internals (storage, indexing, query optimizers), and cloud infrastructure.
- Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade systems on one or more database services in the Cloud.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
- Automation Proficiency: Familiarity with infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and observability frameworks.
- 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:
- $198,000 - $297,000
*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.
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Principal Engineer (Managed Database Services)
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.
As a Principal Engineer you'll spearhead the design, development, and operation of scalable, high‑availability, and high-performance database platforms across relational and non-relational managed services (Managed MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, etc.) and scale-out variants that scale to petabytes of data. 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 of large-scale distributed database systems optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
- Architect solutions for storage engines, indexing, querying, caching, replication, and high availability, drawing from best practices in both relational and NoSQL paradigms.
- 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 database engineering teams.
- 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 define database solutions and migration strategies aligned with organizational goals
- Reliability, Performance & Scaling
- Lead Operations Excellence for database services, 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 for database platforms.
- Drive automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
- Innovation & Future Roadmapping
- Research and integrate advanced capabilities (e.g., AI‑assisted tooling, MCP protocols) to enhance developer workflows and metadata accessibility across database types.
Qualifications:
- Technical Experience: ≥ 12–15 years in distributed systems architecture, database internals (storage, indexing, query optimizers), and cloud infrastructure.
- Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade systems on one or more database services in the Cloud.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
- Automation Proficiency: Familiarity with infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and observability frameworks.
- 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:
- $247,680 - $371,520
*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 Engineer (Managed Database Services)
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.
As a Principal Engineer you'll spearhead the design, development, and operation of scalable, high‑availability, and high-performance database platforms across relational and non-relational managed services (Managed MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, etc.) and scale-out variants that scale to petabytes of data. 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 of large-scale distributed database systems optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
- Architect solutions for storage engines, indexing, querying, caching, replication, and high availability, drawing from best practices in both relational and NoSQL paradigms.
- 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 database engineering teams.
- 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 define database solutions and migration strategies aligned with organizational goals
- Reliability, Performance & Scaling
- Lead Operations Excellence for database services, 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 for database platforms.
- Drive automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
- Innovation & Future Roadmapping
- Research and integrate advanced capabilities (e.g., AI‑assisted tooling, MCP protocols) to enhance developer workflows and metadata accessibility across database types.
Qualifications:
- Technical Experience: ≥ 12–15 years in distributed systems architecture, database internals (storage, indexing, query optimizers), and cloud infrastructure.
- Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade systems on one or more database services in the Cloud.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
- Automation Proficiency: Familiarity with infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and observability frameworks.
- 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:
- $198,000 - $297,000
*This is a hybrid role
JR: 2025-7034
#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 Engineer (Managed Database Services)
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.
As a Principal Engineer you'll spearhead the design, development, and operation of scalable, high‑availability, and high-performance database platforms across relational and non-relational managed services (Managed MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, etc.) and scale-out variants that scale to petabytes of data. 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 of large-scale distributed database systems optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
- Architect solutions for storage engines, indexing, querying, caching, replication, and high availability, drawing from best practices in both relational and NoSQL paradigms.
- 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 database engineering teams.
- 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 define database solutions and migration strategies aligned with organizational goals
- Reliability, Performance & Scaling
- Lead Operations Excellence for database services, 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 for database platforms.
- Drive automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
- Innovation & Future Roadmapping
- Research and integrate advanced capabilities (e.g., AI‑assisted tooling, MCP protocols) to enhance developer workflows and metadata accessibility across database types.
Qualifications:
- Technical Experience: ≥ 12–15 years in distributed systems architecture, database internals (storage, indexing, query optimizers), and cloud infrastructure.
- Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade systems on one or more database services in the Cloud.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
- Automation Proficiency: Familiarity with infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and observability frameworks.
- 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:
- $198,000 - $297,000
*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 Engineer (Managed Database Services)
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.
As a Principal Engineer you'll spearhead the design, development, and operation of scalable, high‑availability, and high-performance database platforms across relational and non-relational managed services (Managed MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, etc.) and scale-out variants that scale to petabytes of data. 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 of large-scale distributed database systems optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
- Architect solutions for storage engines, indexing, querying, caching, replication, and high availability, drawing from best practices in both relational and NoSQL paradigms.
- 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 database engineering teams.
- 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 define database solutions and migration strategies aligned with organizational goals
- Reliability, Performance & Scaling
- Lead Operations Excellence for database services, 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 for database platforms.
- Drive automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
- Innovation & Future Roadmapping
- Research and integrate advanced capabilities (e.g., AI‑assisted tooling, MCP protocols) to enhance developer workflows and metadata accessibility across database types.
Qualifications:
- Technical Experience: ≥ 12–15 years in distributed systems architecture, database internals (storage, indexing, query optimizers), and cloud infrastructure.
- Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade systems on one or more database services in the Cloud.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
- Automation Proficiency: Familiarity with infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and observability frameworks.
- 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:
- $198,000 - $297,000
*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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Senior Software Engineer II (Databases)
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.
Have you ever wondered what happens inside the cloud?DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world. We want people who are passionate about building features that you and your peers will loveDigitalOcean’s Managed Databases Team builds and runs the services and infrastructure for the DigitalOcean DBaaS product.We handle the full life cycle of Managed Databases from the APIs which let users create and manage their databases to software that automates the running, upgrading, and health of databases. We are looking for a seasoned engineer to work on a small team focused on Database-as-a-Service products. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Datastores and Messaging team within the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) organization in Engineering. This role will involve technical leadership to scale our database platform to meet the needs of our growing customer base. This position is able to be hired in India, located in our hub city of Hyderabad.
What You’ll Do:
- Developing external customer-facing Managed Database products (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, Kafka, OpenSearch, MongoDB).
- Acting as a subject matter expert on MySQL and PostgreSQL, providing guidance on performance optimizations and administrative issues.
- Developing and maintaining distributed systems in a Kubernetes environment that is globally distributed.
- Authoring and giving feedback on technical designs.
- Developing APIs with Go.
- Mentoring other engineers on best practices and performing code reviews.
- Providing the last-line of support for DBaaS products.
- Collaborating with agile, self-managed teams of peers across other products. This includes engineers, product managers, designers, and more.
- Leveraging technologies such as Temporal, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Grafana and more.
- Integrating with many components across the DigitalOcean stack.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- 8+ years of experience working in fast-paced, agile product development environments.
- 5+ years of experience working as a subject-matter expert with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL databases.
- Strong knowledge of microservices using container workload engines and frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- A track record of building and maintaining large distributed systems.
- Experience with resilience engineering, fault tolerance, and failure domains as they relate to database backends.
- Strong spoken and written technical capabilities in developing and maintaining software.
- Experience with concurrency patterns in Go.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and frameworks.
- A strong background and exposure to different databases, both SQL and NoSQL paradigms.
- Familiarity with prevalent message bus and queuing technologies.
- Passion for collaborating directly with customers to discover their Jobs To Be Done, and developing simple delightful solutions to solve those jobs.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate and demonstrate empathy with key stakeholders, both spoken and written.
This is a hybrid role based out of Hyderabad, India.
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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