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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

The Strategic Finance team oversees the company's financial well-being while supporting operational and business planning in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. We work hard to ensure growth is accurately projected and managed, and that our financial results are appropriately accounted for. We provide financial analysis to determine critical strategic and operational decisions within a rapidly growing organization. We are looking for a senior Deal Desk analyst to join our team to support our growing commercial selling motion through financial analysis and guidance on standard and non-standard commercial agreements.

This position requires a nimble and curious professional capable of managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, rapidly growing, and fluid organization. You must be highly analytical, organized, and skilled at communication and problem-solving. This role will work to enforce and help define the process behind our discount and credit policies, appropriately structuring deals in alignment with DigitalOcean’s financial goals.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Build trusted cross-functional relationships with Sales, Revenue Operations, Legal and Revenue Accounting and Strategic Finance; proactively identify opportunities for process improvements.
• Partner with Sales and Revenue Operations to structure commercially sound deals by evaluating tradeoffs across price, term, volume, and risk, aligned with financial guidelines.
• Lead financial modeling and evaluation of deal structures, ensuring alignment with margin targets, ARR goals, and long-term profitability.
• Enforce approval frameworks and policies; manage escalations and exceptions for strategic deals.
• Design and own discount reporting and cadence analytics to enable organization wide visibility into trends in the discounting program.
• Work alongside R&D Finance and D&A teams to refine customer and product-level margin profiles.

What We’ll Expect From You:

• High standards of accuracy and precision; extremely detail-oriented, highly organized and resourceful.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly grasp and apply analytical concepts.
• 2+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, FP&A/ sales finance, deal management, sales operations, or business operations.
• Demonstrated ability to work within fixed timeframes and meet deadlines consistently.
• Proactive communicator with excellent verbal and written skills.
• Strong Excel and Google Sheets skills.
• Experience with Salesforce, Hubspot or other CRM tools desired.
• Experience with data analysis programs like Looker and Tableau is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Compensation Range: 

• $93,600.00 - $117,000.00

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7739

#LI-Remote

The Strategic Finance team oversees the company's financial well-being while supporting operational and business planning in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. We work hard to ensure growth is accurately projected and managed, and that our financial results are appropriately accounted for. We provide financial analysis to determine critical strategic and operational decisions within a rapidly growing organization. We are looking for a senior Deal Desk analyst to join our team to support our growing commercial selling motion through financial analysis and guidance on standard and non-standard commercial agreements.

This position requires a nimble and curious professional capable of managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, rapidly growing, and fluid organization. You must be highly analytical, organized, and skilled at communication and problem-solving. This role will work to enforce and help define the process behind our discount and credit policies, appropriately structuring deals in alignment with DigitalOcean’s financial goals.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Build trusted cross-functional relationships with Sales, Revenue Operations, Legal and Revenue Accounting and Strategic Finance; proactively identify opportunities for process improvements.
• Partner with Sales and Revenue Operations to structure commercially sound deals by evaluating tradeoffs across price, term, volume, and risk, aligned with financial guidelines.
• Lead financial modeling and evaluation of deal structures, ensuring alignment with margin targets, ARR goals, and long-term profitability.
• Enforce approval frameworks and policies; manage escalations and exceptions for strategic deals.
• Design and own discount reporting and cadence analytics to enable organization wide visibility into trends in the discounting program.
• Work alongside R&D Finance and D&A teams to refine customer and product-level margin profiles.

What We’ll Expect From You:

• High standards of accuracy and precision; extremely detail-oriented, highly organized and resourceful.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly grasp and apply analytical concepts.
• 2+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, FP&A/ sales finance, deal management, sales operations, or business operations.
• Demonstrated ability to work within fixed timeframes and meet deadlines consistently.
• Proactive communicator with excellent verbal and written skills.
• Strong Excel and Google Sheets skills.
• Experience with Salesforce, Hubspot or other CRM tools desired.
• Experience with data analysis programs like Looker and Tableau is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Compensation Range: 

• $93,600.00 - $117,000.00

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7739

#LI-Remote

The Strategic Finance team oversees the company's financial well-being while supporting operational and business planning in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. We work hard to ensure growth is accurately projected and managed, and that our financial results are appropriately accounted for. We provide financial analysis to determine critical strategic and operational decisions within a rapidly growing organization. We are looking for a senior Deal Desk analyst to join our team to support our growing commercial selling motion through financial analysis and guidance on standard and non-standard commercial agreements.

This position requires a nimble and curious professional capable of managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, rapidly growing, and fluid organization. You must be highly analytical, organized, and skilled at communication and problem-solving. This role will work to enforce and help define the process behind our discount and credit policies, appropriately structuring deals in alignment with DigitalOcean’s financial goals.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Build trusted cross-functional relationships with Sales, Revenue Operations, Legal and Revenue Accounting and Strategic Finance; proactively identify opportunities for process improvements.
• Partner with Sales and Revenue Operations to structure commercially sound deals by evaluating tradeoffs across price, term, volume, and risk, aligned with financial guidelines.
• Lead financial modeling and evaluation of deal structures, ensuring alignment with margin targets, ARR goals, and long-term profitability.
• Enforce approval frameworks and policies; manage escalations and exceptions for strategic deals.
• Design and own discount reporting and cadence analytics to enable organization wide visibility into trends in the discounting program.
• Work alongside R&D Finance and D&A teams to refine customer and product-level margin profiles.

What We’ll Expect From You:

• High standards of accuracy and precision; extremely detail-oriented, highly organized and resourceful.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly grasp and apply analytical concepts.
• 2+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, FP&A/ sales finance, deal management, sales operations, or business operations.
• Demonstrated ability to work within fixed timeframes and meet deadlines consistently.
• Proactive communicator with excellent verbal and written skills.
• Strong Excel and Google Sheets skills.
• Experience with Salesforce, Hubspot or other CRM tools desired.
• Experience with data analysis programs like Looker and Tableau is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Compensation Range: 

• $93,600.00 - $117,000.00

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7739

#LI-Remote

The Strategic Finance team oversees the company's financial well-being while supporting operational and business planning in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. We work hard to ensure growth is accurately projected and managed, and that our financial results are appropriately accounted for. We provide financial analysis to determine critical strategic and operational decisions within a rapidly growing organization. We are looking for a senior Deal Desk analyst to join our team to support our growing commercial selling motion through financial analysis and guidance on standard and non-standard commercial agreements.

This position requires a nimble and curious professional capable of managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, rapidly growing, and fluid organization. You must be highly analytical, organized, and skilled at communication and problem-solving. This role will work to enforce and help define the process behind our discount and credit policies, appropriately structuring deals in alignment with DigitalOcean’s financial goals.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Build trusted cross-functional relationships with Sales, Revenue Operations, Legal and Revenue Accounting and Strategic Finance; proactively identify opportunities for process improvements.
• Partner with Sales and Revenue Operations to structure commercially sound deals by evaluating tradeoffs across price, term, volume, and risk, aligned with financial guidelines.
• Lead financial modeling and evaluation of deal structures, ensuring alignment with margin targets, ARR goals, and long-term profitability.
• Enforce approval frameworks and policies; manage escalations and exceptions for strategic deals.
• Design and own discount reporting and cadence analytics to enable organization wide visibility into trends in the discounting program.
• Work alongside R&D Finance and D&A teams to refine customer and product-level margin profiles.

What We’ll Expect From You:

• High standards of accuracy and precision; extremely detail-oriented, highly organized and resourceful.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly grasp and apply analytical concepts.
• 2+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, FP&A/ sales finance, deal management, sales operations, or business operations.
• Demonstrated ability to work within fixed timeframes and meet deadlines consistently.
• Proactive communicator with excellent verbal and written skills.
• Strong Excel and Google Sheets skills.
• Experience with Salesforce, Hubspot or other CRM tools desired.
• Experience with data analysis programs like Looker and Tableau is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Compensation Range: 

• $93,600.00 - $117,000.00

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7739

#LI-Remote

The Strategic Finance team oversees the company's financial well-being while supporting operational and business planning in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. We work hard to ensure growth is accurately projected and managed, and that our financial results are appropriately accounted for. We provide financial analysis to determine critical strategic and operational decisions within a rapidly growing organization. We are looking for a senior Deal Desk analyst to join our team to support our growing commercial selling motion through financial analysis and guidance on standard and non-standard commercial agreements.

This position requires a nimble and curious professional capable of managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, rapidly growing, and fluid organization. You must be highly analytical, organized, and skilled at communication and problem-solving. This role will work to enforce and help define the process behind our discount and credit policies, appropriately structuring deals in alignment with DigitalOcean’s financial goals.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Build trusted cross-functional relationships with Sales, Revenue Operations, Legal and Revenue Accounting and Strategic Finance; proactively identify opportunities for process improvements.
• Partner with Sales and Revenue Operations to structure commercially sound deals by evaluating tradeoffs across price, term, volume, and risk, aligned with financial guidelines.
• Lead financial modeling and evaluation of deal structures, ensuring alignment with margin targets, ARR goals, and long-term profitability.
• Enforce approval frameworks and policies; manage escalations and exceptions for strategic deals.
• Design and own discount reporting and cadence analytics to enable organization wide visibility into trends in the discounting program.
• Work alongside R&D Finance and D&A teams to refine customer and product-level margin profiles.

What We’ll Expect From You:

• High standards of accuracy and precision; extremely detail-oriented, highly organized and resourceful.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly grasp and apply analytical concepts.
• 2+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, FP&A/ sales finance, deal management, sales operations, or business operations.
• Demonstrated ability to work within fixed timeframes and meet deadlines consistently.
• Proactive communicator with excellent verbal and written skills.
• Strong Excel and Google Sheets skills.
• Experience with Salesforce, Hubspot or other CRM tools desired.
• Experience with data analysis programs like Looker and Tableau is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Compensation Range: 

• $93,600.00 - $117,000.00

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7739

#LI-Remote

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

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

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

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

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

DigitalOcean is expanding its AI Infrastructure layer to support the next generation of AI-driven applications.

We are seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to play a key role in our AI Infrastructure Control Plane team. This team's mission is to orchestrate and operate compute fleet, storage and networking for running AI workloads - inference, training, fine-tuning - at scale. In this high-impact role, you will be a primary technical architect and leader, responsible for building the foundational control plane services that power our large Gen AI model hosting infrastructure.

This is a hands-on role, requiring you to be able to develop high quality software while availing of all the productivity boosts granted by the latest AI coding agents. You will bridge the gap between high-scale distributed systems and specialized AI inference orchestration to ensure our global platform remains simple, reliable, and accessible for developers building the next generation of AI applications.

What You’ll Do:

• Architectural Leadership: Drive the design and development of distributed services within our AI Infrastructure ecosystem, including complex orchestration for LLM inference and hosting services. Your focus will be the control plane orchestration of compute, networking, and storage for AI workloads.
• System Design: Create, refine, and assess system design proposals for our high-scale, multi-tenant inference cloud ecosystem, ensuring they meet rigorous standards for availability and resiliency.
• Operational Excellence: Lead the operational strategy for critical services, defining SLOs and leveraging advanced observability to maintain platform health in a high-scale environment.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner deeply with Product Management, TPMs, and Engineering Management peers to align technical roadmaps with business priorities.
• Strategic Growth: Work on new architecture initiatives that enable fleet optimization and help evolve DigitalOcean into a market leader for AI-native networking and infrastructure.

What You’ll Bring to DigitalOcean:

• Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep experience with distributed and cloud services, including messaging systems, databases, and infrastructure as code, observability, and security.
• Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Advanced knowledge of cloud networking (VPCs, Load Balancers), containerization (Kubernetes), and cloud storage (block, object, NFS). Deep networking software experience (VLAN, RDMA, Ethernet, L3-L7 network protocols, etc) would be a plus.
• AI/ML Domain Knowledge: Proven experience building AI/ML products, specifically focusing on Gen AI platforms, LLM hosting, and inference workflows.
• Operational Track Record: Significant experience running customer-facing, high-availability services across multiple regions.
• Open Source Engagement: Experience integrating and building with open-source software and a bias for technical ownership.
• Software Engineering: Expert proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC for service-to-service communication.

Compensation Range: 

• $139,200.00 - $174,000.00

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7623

#LI-Remote

DigitalOcean is expanding its AI Infrastructure layer to support the next generation of AI-driven applications.

We are seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to play a key role in our AI Infrastructure Control Plane team. This team's mission is to orchestrate and operate compute fleet, storage and networking for running AI workloads - inference, training, fine-tuning - at scale. In this high-impact role, you will be a primary technical architect and leader, responsible for building the foundational control plane services that power our large Gen AI model hosting infrastructure.

This is a hands-on role, requiring you to be able to develop high quality software while availing of all the productivity boosts granted by the latest AI coding agents. You will bridge the gap between high-scale distributed systems and specialized AI inference orchestration to ensure our global platform remains simple, reliable, and accessible for developers building the next generation of AI applications.

What You’ll Do:

• Architectural Leadership: Drive the design and development of distributed services within our AI Infrastructure ecosystem, including complex orchestration for LLM inference and hosting services. Your focus will be the control plane orchestration of compute, networking, and storage for AI workloads.
• System Design: Create, refine, and assess system design proposals for our high-scale, multi-tenant inference cloud ecosystem, ensuring they meet rigorous standards for availability and resiliency.
• Operational Excellence: Lead the operational strategy for critical services, defining SLOs and leveraging advanced observability to maintain platform health in a high-scale environment.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner deeply with Product Management, TPMs, and Engineering Management peers to align technical roadmaps with business priorities.
• Strategic Growth: Work on new architecture initiatives that enable fleet optimization and help evolve DigitalOcean into a market leader for AI-native networking and infrastructure.

What You’ll Bring to DigitalOcean:

• Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep experience with distributed and cloud services, including messaging systems, databases, and infrastructure as code, observability, and security.
• Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Advanced knowledge of cloud networking (VPCs, Load Balancers), containerization (Kubernetes), and cloud storage (block, object, NFS). Deep networking software experience (VLAN, RDMA, Ethernet, L3-L7 network protocols, etc) would be a plus.
• AI/ML Domain Knowledge: Proven experience building AI/ML products, specifically focusing on Gen AI platforms, LLM hosting, and inference workflows.
• Operational Track Record: Significant experience running customer-facing, high-availability services across multiple regions.
• Open Source Engagement: Experience integrating and building with open-source software and a bias for technical ownership.
• Software Engineering: Expert proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC for service-to-service communication.

Compensation Range: 

• $139,200.00 - $174,000.00

*This is a hybrid role

JR: 2026-7623

#LI-Hybrid

DigitalOcean is expanding its AI Infrastructure layer to support the next generation of AI-driven applications.

We are seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to play a key role in our AI Infrastructure Control Plane team. This team's mission is to orchestrate and operate compute fleet, storage and networking for running AI workloads - inference, training, fine-tuning - at scale. In this high-impact role, you will be a primary technical architect and leader, responsible for building the foundational control plane services that power our large Gen AI model hosting infrastructure.

This is a hands-on role, requiring you to be able to develop high quality software while availing of all the productivity boosts granted by the latest AI coding agents. You will bridge the gap between high-scale distributed systems and specialized AI inference orchestration to ensure our global platform remains simple, reliable, and accessible for developers building the next generation of AI applications.

What You’ll Do:

• Architectural Leadership: Drive the design and development of distributed services within our AI Infrastructure ecosystem, including complex orchestration for LLM inference and hosting services. Your focus will be the control plane orchestration of compute, networking, and storage for AI workloads.
• System Design: Create, refine, and assess system design proposals for our high-scale, multi-tenant inference cloud ecosystem, ensuring they meet rigorous standards for availability and resiliency.
• Operational Excellence: Lead the operational strategy for critical services, defining SLOs and leveraging advanced observability to maintain platform health in a high-scale environment.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner deeply with Product Management, TPMs, and Engineering Management peers to align technical roadmaps with business priorities.
• Strategic Growth: Work on new architecture initiatives that enable fleet optimization and help evolve DigitalOcean into a market leader for AI-native networking and infrastructure.

What You’ll Bring to DigitalOcean:

• Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep experience with distributed and cloud services, including messaging systems, databases, and infrastructure as code, observability, and security.
• Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Advanced knowledge of cloud networking (VPCs, Load Balancers), containerization (Kubernetes), and cloud storage (block, object, NFS). Deep networking software experience (VLAN, RDMA, Ethernet, L3-L7 network protocols, etc) would be a plus.
• AI/ML Domain Knowledge: Proven experience building AI/ML products, specifically focusing on Gen AI platforms, LLM hosting, and inference workflows.
• Operational Track Record: Significant experience running customer-facing, high-availability services across multiple regions.
• Open Source Engagement: Experience integrating and building with open-source software and a bias for technical ownership.
• Software Engineering: Expert proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC for service-to-service communication.

Compensation Range: 

• $139,200.00 - $174,000.00

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7623

#LI-Remote

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to play a key technical role in our GPU Kernel and Performance team. DigitalOcean aims to be the Inference Cloud of choice for digitally native companies and you will help ensure we can offer the industry-leading performance for our inference services. You will be responsible for the architectural decisions that maximize throughput and minimize latency for the world’s most advanced large models. As an IC leader, you will act as a force multiplier for the engineering organization, solving the most complex bottlenecks in memory bandwidth and compute utilization while guiding the technical roadmap for our high-performance inference fleet.

What You’ll Do:

• Kernel Engineering: Design and implement high-performance GPU kernels using Triton and CUDA C++.
• Precision Optimization: Develop and deploy state-of-the-art quantization techniques (FP8, INT8, and experimental FP4) to double throughput without losing accuracy.
• Memory Magic: Optimize memory access patterns (SRAM vs. HBM3e) to eliminate bottlenecks in long-context attention mechanisms.
• Research to Production: Implement the latest architectural breakthroughs like FlashAttention-4 and TileLang directly into our production stack.

What You’ll Bring:

• Low-Level Mastery: Deep understanding of GPU architectures (SMs, Warp scheduling, Tensor Cores).
• The Toolkit: Expert-level Triton or CUDA. If you’ve contributed to the Triton compiler or wrote custom CUDA kernels for a major LLM, we want you.
• Math Foundation: Strong grasp of linear algebra and how it maps to parallel hardware.
• Performance Obsession: A track record of optimizing kernels to achieve >80% of theoretical hardware peak performance.

Compensation Range: 

• $167,200.00 to $209,000

*This is a remote role

JR:  2026-7593

#LI-Remote

DigitalOcean is expanding its AI Infrastructure layer to support the next generation of AI-driven applications.

We are seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to play a key role in our AI Infrastructure Control Plane team. This team's mission is to orchestrate and operate compute fleet, storage and networking for running AI workloads - inference, training, fine-tuning - at scale. In this high-impact role, you will be a primary technical architect and leader, responsible for building the foundational control plane services that power our large Gen AI model hosting infrastructure.

This is a hands-on role, requiring you to be able to develop high quality software while availing of all the productivity boosts granted by the latest AI coding agents. You will bridge the gap between high-scale distributed systems and specialized AI inference orchestration to ensure our global platform remains simple, reliable, and accessible for developers building the next generation of AI applications.

What You’ll Do:

• Architectural Leadership: Drive the design and development of distributed services within our AI Infrastructure ecosystem, including complex orchestration for LLM inference and hosting services. Your focus will be the control plane orchestration of compute, networking, and storage for AI workloads.
• System Design: Create, refine, and assess system design proposals for our high-scale, multi-tenant inference cloud ecosystem, ensuring they meet rigorous standards for availability and resiliency.
• Operational Excellence: Lead the operational strategy for critical services, defining SLOs and leveraging advanced observability to maintain platform health in a high-scale environment.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner deeply with Product Management, TPMs, and Engineering Management peers to align technical roadmaps with business priorities.
• Strategic Growth: Work on new architecture initiatives that enable fleet optimization and help evolve DigitalOcean into a market leader for AI-native networking and infrastructure.

What You’ll Bring to DigitalOcean:

• Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep experience with distributed and cloud services, including messaging systems, databases, and infrastructure as code, observability, and security.
• Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Advanced knowledge of cloud networking (VPCs, Load Balancers), containerization (Kubernetes), and cloud storage (block, object, NFS). Deep networking software experience (VLAN, RDMA, Ethernet, L3-L7 network protocols, etc) would be a plus.
• AI/ML Domain Knowledge: Proven experience building AI/ML products, specifically focusing on Gen AI platforms, LLM hosting, and inference workflows.
• Operational Track Record: Significant experience running customer-facing, high-availability services across multiple regions.
• Open Source Engagement: Experience integrating and building with open-source software and a bias for technical ownership.
• Software Engineering: Expert proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC for service-to-service communication.

Compensation Range: 

• $139,200.00 - $174,000.00

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7623

#LI-Remote

DigitalOcean is expanding its AI Infrastructure layer to support the next generation of AI-driven applications.

We are seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to play a key role in our AI Infrastructure Control Plane team. This team's mission is to orchestrate and operate compute fleet, storage and networking for running AI workloads - inference, training, fine-tuning - at scale. In this high-impact role, you will be a primary technical architect and leader, responsible for building the foundational control plane services that power our large Gen AI model hosting infrastructure.

This is a hands-on role, requiring you to be able to develop high quality software while availing of all the productivity boosts granted by the latest AI coding agents. You will bridge the gap between high-scale distributed systems and specialized AI inference orchestration to ensure our global platform remains simple, reliable, and accessible for developers building the next generation of AI applications.

What You’ll Do:

• Architectural Leadership: Drive the design and development of distributed services within our AI Infrastructure ecosystem, including complex orchestration for LLM inference and hosting services. Your focus will be the control plane orchestration of compute, networking, and storage for AI workloads.
• System Design: Create, refine, and assess system design proposals for our high-scale, multi-tenant inference cloud ecosystem, ensuring they meet rigorous standards for availability and resiliency.
• Operational Excellence: Lead the operational strategy for critical services, defining SLOs and leveraging advanced observability to maintain platform health in a high-scale environment.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner deeply with Product Management, TPMs, and Engineering Management peers to align technical roadmaps with business priorities.
• Strategic Growth: Work on new architecture initiatives that enable fleet optimization and help evolve DigitalOcean into a market leader for AI-native networking and infrastructure.

What You’ll Bring to DigitalOcean:

• Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep experience with distributed and cloud services, including messaging systems, databases, and infrastructure as code, observability, and security.
• Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Advanced knowledge of cloud networking (VPCs, Load Balancers), containerization (Kubernetes), and cloud storage (block, object, NFS). Deep networking software experience (VLAN, RDMA, Ethernet, L3-L7 network protocols, etc) would be a plus.
• AI/ML Domain Knowledge: Proven experience building AI/ML products, specifically focusing on Gen AI platforms, LLM hosting, and inference workflows.
• Operational Track Record: Significant experience running customer-facing, high-availability services across multiple regions.
• Open Source Engagement: Experience integrating and building with open-source software and a bias for technical ownership.
• Software Engineering: Expert proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC for service-to-service communication.

Compensation Range: 

• $139,200.00 - $174,000.00

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7623

#LI-Remote

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to play a key technical role in our GPU Kernel and Performance team. DigitalOcean aims to be the Inference Cloud of choice for digitally native companies and you will help ensure we can offer the industry-leading performance for our inference services. You will be responsible for the architectural decisions that maximize throughput and minimize latency for the world’s most advanced large models. As an IC leader, you will act as a force multiplier for the engineering organization, solving the most complex bottlenecks in memory bandwidth and compute utilization while guiding the technical roadmap for our high-performance inference fleet.

What You’ll Do:

• Kernel Engineering: Design and implement high-performance GPU kernels using Triton and CUDA C++.
• Precision Optimization: Develop and deploy state-of-the-art quantization techniques (FP8, INT8, and experimental FP4) to double throughput without losing accuracy.
• Memory Magic: Optimize memory access patterns (SRAM vs. HBM3e) to eliminate bottlenecks in long-context attention mechanisms.
• Research to Production: Implement the latest architectural breakthroughs like FlashAttention-4 and TileLang directly into our production stack.

What You’ll Bring:

• Low-Level Mastery: Deep understanding of GPU architectures (SMs, Warp scheduling, Tensor Cores).
• The Toolkit: Expert-level Triton or CUDA. If you’ve contributed to the Triton compiler or wrote custom CUDA kernels for a major LLM, we want you.
• Math Foundation: Strong grasp of linear algebra and how it maps to parallel hardware.
• Performance Obsession: A track record of optimizing kernels to achieve >80% of theoretical hardware peak performance.

Compensation Range: 

• $167,200.00 to $209,000

*This is a remote role

JR:  2026-7593

#LI-Remote

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to play a key technical role in our GPU Kernel and Performance team. DigitalOcean aims to be the Inference Cloud of choice for digitally native companies and you will help ensure we can offer the industry-leading performance for our inference services. You will be responsible for the architectural decisions that maximize throughput and minimize latency for the world’s most advanced large models. As an IC leader, you will act as a force multiplier for the engineering organization, solving the most complex bottlenecks in memory bandwidth and compute utilization while guiding the technical roadmap for our high-performance inference fleet.

What You’ll Do:

• Kernel Engineering: Design and implement high-performance GPU kernels using Triton and CUDA C++.
• Precision Optimization: Develop and deploy state-of-the-art quantization techniques (FP8, INT8, and experimental FP4) to double throughput without losing accuracy.
• Memory Magic: Optimize memory access patterns (SRAM vs. HBM3e) to eliminate bottlenecks in long-context attention mechanisms.
• Research to Production: Implement the latest architectural breakthroughs like FlashAttention-4 and TileLang directly into our production stack.

What You’ll Bring:

• Low-Level Mastery: Deep understanding of GPU architectures (SMs, Warp scheduling, Tensor Cores).
• The Toolkit: Expert-level Triton or CUDA. If you’ve contributed to the Triton compiler or wrote custom CUDA kernels for a major LLM, we want you.
• Math Foundation: Strong grasp of linear algebra and how it maps to parallel hardware.
• Performance Obsession: A track record of optimizing kernels to achieve >80% of theoretical hardware peak performance.

Compensation Range: 

• $167,200.00 to $209,000

*This is a hybrid role

JR: 2026-7593

#LI-Hybrid

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to play a key technical role in our GPU Kernel and Performance team. DigitalOcean aims to be the Inference Cloud of choice for digitally native companies and you will help ensure we can offer the industry-leading performance for our inference services. You will be responsible for the architectural decisions that maximize throughput and minimize latency for the world’s most advanced large models. As an IC leader, you will act as a force multiplier for the engineering organization, solving the most complex bottlenecks in memory bandwidth and compute utilization while guiding the technical roadmap for our high-performance inference fleet.

What You’ll Do:

• Kernel Engineering: Design and implement high-performance GPU kernels using Triton and CUDA C++.
• Precision Optimization: Develop and deploy state-of-the-art quantization techniques (FP8, INT8, and experimental FP4) to double throughput without losing accuracy.
• Memory Magic: Optimize memory access patterns (SRAM vs. HBM3e) to eliminate bottlenecks in long-context attention mechanisms.
• Research to Production: Implement the latest architectural breakthroughs like FlashAttention-4 and TileLang directly into our production stack.

What You’ll Bring:

• Low-Level Mastery: Deep understanding of GPU architectures (SMs, Warp scheduling, Tensor Cores).
• The Toolkit: Expert-level Triton or CUDA. If you’ve contributed to the Triton compiler or wrote custom CUDA kernels for a major LLM, we want you.
• Math Foundation: Strong grasp of linear algebra and how it maps to parallel hardware.
• Performance Obsession: A track record of optimizing kernels to achieve >80% of theoretical hardware peak performance.

Compensation Range: 

• $167,200.00 to $209,000

*This is a remote role

JR:  2026-7593

#LI-Remote

DigitalOcean is expanding its AI Infrastructure layer to support the next generation of AI-driven applications. We are seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to join our AI Inference Engine Systems team. In this role, you will be a key technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-scale, resilient data plane services that power our "Inference as a Service" offering. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems and specialized AI hardware to ensure our customers can deploy and scale their models with industry-leading performance and reliability. This is a hands-on role, requiring you to be able to develop high quality software while availing of all the productivity boosts granted by the latest AI coding agents. 

What You’ll Do:

• Technical Leadership: Act as a technical leader on the team, driving the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of critical data plane components hosting large generative AI models.
• System Design: Architect and refine system design proposals for our high-scale, multi-tenant AI inference cloud ecosystem, ensuring they meet rigorous availability and resiliency standards.
• Performance Optimization: Implement and optimize distributed inference hosting using techniques like tensor/data parallelism, KV cache optimizations, and smart routing.
• Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with Product Managers, customer-facing teams, and other engineering teams to align technical roadmaps with customer needs.
• Mentorship: Coach and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Operational Excellence: Maintain and operate critical, high-scale services, utilizing observability tools and defining SLOs to ensure superior platform health.

What You’ll Bring to DigitalOcean:

• Distributed Systems Expertise: Strong experience with microservices, messaging systems, databases, and infrastructure as code.
• AI/ML Domain Knowledge: Hands-on experience hosting large language or multimodal models using inference engines like vLLM, SGLang, or Modular.
• Inference Frameworks: Familiarity with distributed inference serving frameworks such as llm-d, NVIDIA Dynamo, or Ray Serve.
• Hardware & Interconnects: Understanding of GPU-level optimization and experience with interconnect technologies like NVlink, XGMI, or RoCE.
• Architecture Proficiency: Knowledge of common LLM architectures and optimization techniques (e.g., continuous batching, quantization).
• Software Engineering: Expert-level proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC.
• Cloud Operations: Proven experience shipping customer-facing software products and running critical services in a high-scale environment similar to DigitalOcean.
• Open Source Mindset: Experience integrating and building with open-source software.

Compensation Range: 

• $167,200.00 - $209,000

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7591

#LI-Remote

DigitalOcean is expanding its AI Infrastructure layer to support the next generation of AI-driven applications. We are seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to join our AI Inference Engine Systems team. In this role, you will be a key technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-scale, resilient data plane services that power our "Inference as a Service" offering. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems and specialized AI hardware to ensure our customers can deploy and scale their models with industry-leading performance and reliability. This is a hands-on role, requiring you to be able to develop high quality software while availing of all the productivity boosts granted by the latest AI coding agents. 

What You’ll Do:

• Technical Leadership: Act as a technical leader on the team, driving the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of critical data plane components hosting large generative AI models.
• System Design: Architect and refine system design proposals for our high-scale, multi-tenant AI inference cloud ecosystem, ensuring they meet rigorous availability and resiliency standards.
• Performance Optimization: Implement and optimize distributed inference hosting using techniques like tensor/data parallelism, KV cache optimizations, and smart routing.
• Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with Product Managers, customer-facing teams, and other engineering teams to align technical roadmaps with customer needs.
• Mentorship: Coach and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Operational Excellence: Maintain and operate critical, high-scale services, utilizing observability tools and defining SLOs to ensure superior platform health.

What You’ll Bring to DigitalOcean:

• Distributed Systems Expertise: Strong experience with microservices, messaging systems, databases, and infrastructure as code.
• AI/ML Domain Knowledge: Hands-on experience hosting large language or multimodal models using inference engines like vLLM, SGLang, or Modular.
• Inference Frameworks: Familiarity with distributed inference serving frameworks such as llm-d, NVIDIA Dynamo, or Ray Serve.
• Hardware & Interconnects: Understanding of GPU-level optimization and experience with interconnect technologies like NVlink, XGMI, or RoCE.
• Architecture Proficiency: Knowledge of common LLM architectures and optimization techniques (e.g., continuous batching, quantization).
• Software Engineering: Expert-level proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC.
• Cloud Operations: Proven experience shipping customer-facing software products and running critical services in a high-scale environment similar to DigitalOcean.
• Open Source Mindset: Experience integrating and building with open-source software.

Compensation Range: 

• $167,200.00 - $209,000

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7591

#LI-Remote

DigitalOcean is expanding its AI Infrastructure layer to support the next generation of AI-driven applications. We are seeking a Senior Engineer II to join our AI Inference Engine Systems team. In this role, you will be a key technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-scale, resilient data plane services that power our "Inference as a Service" offering. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems and specialized AI hardware to ensure our customers can deploy and scale their models with industry-leading performance and reliability. This is a hands-on role, requiring you to be able to develop high quality software while availing of all the productivity boosts granted by the latest AI coding agents. 

What You’ll Do:

• Technical Leadership: Act as a technical leader on the team, driving the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of critical data plane components hosting large generative AI models.
• System Design: Architect and refine system design proposals for our high-scale, multi-tenant AI inference cloud ecosystem, ensuring they meet rigorous availability and resiliency standards.
• Performance Optimization: Implement and optimize distributed inference hosting using techniques like tensor/data parallelism, KV cache optimizations, and smart routing.
• Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with Product Managers, customer-facing teams, and other engineering teams to align technical roadmaps with customer needs.
• Mentorship: Coach and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Operational Excellence: Maintain and operate critical, high-scale services, utilizing observability tools and defining SLOs to ensure superior platform health.

What You’ll Bring to DigitalOcean:

• Distributed Systems Expertise: Strong experience with microservices, messaging systems, databases, and infrastructure as code.
• AI/ML Domain Knowledge: Hands-on experience hosting large language or multimodal models using inference engines like vLLM, SGLang, or Modular.
• Inference Frameworks: Familiarity with distributed inference serving frameworks such as llm-d, NVIDIA Dynamo, or Ray Serve.
• Hardware & Interconnects: Understanding of GPU-level optimization and experience with interconnect technologies like NVlink, XGMI, or RoCE.
• Architecture Proficiency: Knowledge of common LLM architectures and optimization techniques (e.g., continuous batching, quantization).
• Software Engineering: Expert-level proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC.
• Cloud Operations: Proven experience shipping customer-facing software products and running critical services in a high-scale environment similar to DigitalOcean.
• Open Source Mindset: Experience integrating and building with open-source software.

Compensation Range: 

• $167,200.00 - $209,000

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7591

#LI-Remote

DigitalOcean is expanding its AI Infrastructure layer to support the next generation of AI-driven applications. We are seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to join our AI Inference Engine Systems team. In this role, you will be a key technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-scale, resilient data plane services that power our "Inference as a Service" offering. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems and specialized AI hardware to ensure our customers can deploy and scale their models with industry-leading performance and reliability. This is a hands-on role, requiring you to be able to develop high quality software while availing of all the productivity boosts granted by the latest AI coding agents. 

What You’ll Do:

• Technical Leadership: Act as a technical leader on the team, driving the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of critical data plane components hosting large generative AI models.
• System Design: Architect and refine system design proposals for our high-scale, multi-tenant AI inference cloud ecosystem, ensuring they meet rigorous availability and resiliency standards.
• Performance Optimization: Implement and optimize distributed inference hosting using techniques like tensor/data parallelism, KV cache optimizations, and smart routing.
• Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with Product Managers, customer-facing teams, and other engineering teams to align technical roadmaps with customer needs.
• Mentorship: Coach and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Operational Excellence: Maintain and operate critical, high-scale services, utilizing observability tools and defining SLOs to ensure superior platform health.

What You’ll Bring to DigitalOcean:

• Distributed Systems Expertise: Strong experience with microservices, messaging systems, databases, and infrastructure as code.
• AI/ML Domain Knowledge: Hands-on experience hosting large language or multimodal models using inference engines like vLLM, SGLang, or Modular.
• Inference Frameworks: Familiarity with distributed inference serving frameworks such as llm-d, NVIDIA Dynamo, or Ray Serve.
• Hardware & Interconnects: Understanding of GPU-level optimization and experience with interconnect technologies like NVlink, XGMI, or RoCE.
• Architecture Proficiency: Knowledge of common LLM architectures and optimization techniques (e.g., continuous batching, quantization).
• Software Engineering: Expert-level proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC.
• Cloud Operations: Proven experience shipping customer-facing software products and running critical services in a high-scale environment similar to DigitalOcean.
• Open Source Mindset: Experience integrating and building with open-source software.

Compensation Range: 

• $167,200.00 - $209,000

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7591

#LI-Remote

DigitalOcean is expanding its AI Infrastructure layer to support the next generation of AI-driven applications. We are seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to join our AI Inference Engine Systems team. In this role, you will be a key technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-scale, resilient data plane services that power our "Inference as a Service" offering. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems and specialized AI hardware to ensure our customers can deploy and scale their models with industry-leading performance and reliability. This is a hands-on role, requiring you to be able to develop high quality software while availing of all the productivity boosts granted by the latest AI coding agents. 

What You’ll Do:

• Technical Leadership: Act as a technical leader on the team, driving the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of critical data plane components hosting large generative AI models.
• System Design: Architect and refine system design proposals for our high-scale, multi-tenant AI inference cloud ecosystem, ensuring they meet rigorous availability and resiliency standards.
• Performance Optimization: Implement and optimize distributed inference hosting using techniques like tensor/data parallelism, KV cache optimizations, and smart routing.
• Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with Product Managers, customer-facing teams, and other engineering teams to align technical roadmaps with customer needs.
• Mentorship: Coach and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Operational Excellence: Maintain and operate critical, high-scale services, utilizing observability tools and defining SLOs to ensure superior platform health.

What You’ll Bring to DigitalOcean:

• Distributed Systems Expertise: Strong experience with microservices, messaging systems, databases, and infrastructure as code.
• AI/ML Domain Knowledge: Hands-on experience hosting large language or multimodal models using inference engines like vLLM, SGLang, or Modular.
• Inference Frameworks: Familiarity with distributed inference serving frameworks such as llm-d, NVIDIA Dynamo, or Ray Serve.
• Hardware & Interconnects: Understanding of GPU-level optimization and experience with interconnect technologies like NVlink, XGMI, or RoCE.
• Architecture Proficiency: Knowledge of common LLM architectures and optimization techniques (e.g., continuous batching, quantization).
• Software Engineering: Expert-level proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC.
• Cloud Operations: Proven experience shipping customer-facing software products and running critical services in a high-scale environment similar to DigitalOcean.
• Open Source Mindset: Experience integrating and building with open-source software.

Compensation Range: 

• $167,200.00 - $209,000

*This is a hybrid role

JR: 2026-7591

#LI-Hybrid

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to play a key technical role in our GPU Kernel and Performance team. DigitalOcean aims to be the Inference Cloud of choice for digitally native companies and you will help ensure we can offer the industry-leading performance for our inference services. You will be responsible for the architectural decisions that maximize throughput and minimize latency for the world’s most advanced large models. As an IC leader, you will act as a force multiplier for the engineering organization, solving the most complex bottlenecks in memory bandwidth and compute utilization while guiding the technical roadmap for our high-performance inference fleet.

What You’ll Do:

• Kernel Engineering: Design and implement high-performance GPU kernels using Triton and CUDA C++.
• Precision Optimization: Develop and deploy state-of-the-art quantization techniques (FP8, INT8, and experimental FP4) to double throughput without losing accuracy.
• Memory Magic: Optimize memory access patterns (SRAM vs. HBM3e) to eliminate bottlenecks in long-context attention mechanisms.
• Research to Production: Implement the latest architectural breakthroughs like FlashAttention-4 and TileLang directly into our production stack.

What You’ll Bring:

• Low-Level Mastery: Deep understanding of GPU architectures (SMs, Warp scheduling, Tensor Cores).
• The Toolkit: Expert-level Triton or CUDA. If you’ve contributed to the Triton compiler or wrote custom CUDA kernels for a major LLM, we want you.
• Math Foundation: Strong grasp of linear algebra and how it maps to parallel hardware.
• Performance Obsession: A track record of optimizing kernels to achieve >80% of theoretical hardware peak performance.

Compensation Range: 

• $167,200.00 to $209,000

*This is a remote role

JR:  2026-7593

#LI-Remote

We want people who care about empowering their peers to understand their services.

Observability Platforms is focused on creating visibility into DigitalOcean’s services and infrastructure. We design, build, and operate the internal logging, metrics, distributed tracing, error reporting, monitoring, and alerting platforms that are depended on to ensure good, reliable experiences for DigitalOcean’s customers. Through a mix of open source services and in-house developed software we seek to continuously improve the ability of DigitalOcean engineers and product managers to understand the behavior of their products and services in order to improve the experiences of our customers. 

What You'll Be Doing:

• Integrating and operating open source distributed data systems such as OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics, Kafka, and Clickhouse
• Implementing features to both improve the operability of our services and help design and implement the next generations of metrics and logging at DigitalOcean.
• Guiding other engineers on how they can best utilize our systems to gain confidence that their services are performing as expected.

What We'll Expect From You:

• Experience running and using distributed databases such as Opensearch, VictoriaMetrics, Clickhouse
• Experience with Kubernetes not just as an end user, but also an operator
• Experience writing software in Golang. Experience with the challenges of concurrency and distributed systems is a plus.
• Experience with DevOps tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and Github Actions (or other relevant CI/CD experience).
• An ability to work well as part of a geographically distributed team.
• Participation in a 24/7 on call rotation
• Someone who is motivated to learn, teach, grow, explore, and seek out areas we can improve
• Strong communication and customer service skills - we provide support to the internal users of the systems we design, build, and operate. 

Compensation Range: 

• $139,000 - $174,000

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7494

#LI-Remote

We want people who care about empowering their peers to understand their services.

Observability Platforms is focused on creating visibility into DigitalOcean’s services and infrastructure. We design, build, and operate the internal logging, metrics, distributed tracing, error reporting, monitoring, and alerting platforms that are depended on to ensure good, reliable experiences for DigitalOcean’s customers. Through a mix of open source services and in-house developed software we seek to continuously improve the ability of DigitalOcean engineers and product managers to understand the behavior of their products and services in order to improve the experiences of our customers. 

What You'll Be Doing:

• Integrating and operating open source distributed data systems such as OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics, Kafka, and Clickhouse
• Implementing features to both improve the operability of our services and help design and implement the next generations of metrics and logging at DigitalOcean.
• Guiding other engineers on how they can best utilize our systems to gain confidence that their services are performing as expected.

What We'll Expect From You:

• Experience running and using distributed databases such as Opensearch, VictoriaMetrics, Clickhouse
• Experience with Kubernetes not just as an end user, but also an operator
• Experience writing software in Golang. Experience with the challenges of concurrency and distributed systems is a plus.
• Experience with DevOps tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and Github Actions (or other relevant CI/CD experience).
• An ability to work well as part of a geographically distributed team.
• Participation in a 24/7 on call rotation
• Someone who is motivated to learn, teach, grow, explore, and seek out areas we can improve
• Strong communication and customer service skills - we provide support to the internal users of the systems we design, build, and operate. 

Compensation Range: 

• $139,000 - $174,000

*This is a hybrid role

JR: 2026-7494

#LI-Hybrid

We want people who care about empowering their peers to understand their services.

Observability Platforms is focused on creating visibility into DigitalOcean’s services and infrastructure. We design, build, and operate the internal logging, metrics, distributed tracing, error reporting, monitoring, and alerting platforms that are depended on to ensure good, reliable experiences for DigitalOcean’s customers. Through a mix of open source services and in-house developed software we seek to continuously improve the ability of DigitalOcean engineers and product managers to understand the behavior of their products and services in order to improve the experiences of our customers. 

What You'll Be Doing:

• Integrating and operating open source distributed data systems such as OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics, Kafka, and Clickhouse
• Implementing features to both improve the operability of our services and help design and implement the next generations of metrics and logging at DigitalOcean.
• Guiding other engineers on how they can best utilize our systems to gain confidence that their services are performing as expected.

What We'll Expect From You:

• Experience running and using distributed databases such as Opensearch, VictoriaMetrics, Clickhouse
• Experience with Kubernetes not just as an end user, but also an operator
• Experience writing software in Golang. Experience with the challenges of concurrency and distributed systems is a plus.
• Experience with DevOps tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and Github Actions (or other relevant CI/CD experience).
• An ability to work well as part of a geographically distributed team.
• Participation in a 24/7 on call rotation
• Someone who is motivated to learn, teach, grow, explore, and seek out areas we can improve
• Strong communication and customer service skills - we provide support to the internal users of the systems we design, build, and operate. 

Compensation Range: 

• $139,000 - $174,000

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7494

#LI-Remote

We want people who care about empowering their peers to understand their services.

Observability Platforms is focused on creating visibility into DigitalOcean’s services and infrastructure. We design, build, and operate the internal logging, metrics, distributed tracing, error reporting, monitoring, and alerting platforms that are depended on to ensure good, reliable experiences for DigitalOcean’s customers. Through a mix of open source services and in-house developed software we seek to continuously improve the ability of DigitalOcean engineers and product managers to understand the behavior of their products and services in order to improve the experiences of our customers. 

What You'll Be Doing:

• Integrating and operating open source distributed data systems such as OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics, Kafka, and Clickhouse
• Implementing features to both improve the operability of our services and help design and implement the next generations of metrics and logging at DigitalOcean.
• Guiding other engineers on how they can best utilize our systems to gain confidence that their services are performing as expected.

What We'll Expect From You:

• Experience running and using distributed databases such as Opensearch, VictoriaMetrics, Clickhouse
• Experience with Kubernetes not just as an end user, but also an operator
• Experience writing software in Golang. Experience with the challenges of concurrency and distributed systems is a plus.
• Experience with DevOps tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and Github Actions (or other relevant CI/CD experience).
• An ability to work well as part of a geographically distributed team.
• Participation in a 24/7 on call rotation
• Someone who is motivated to learn, teach, grow, explore, and seek out areas we can improve
• Strong communication and customer service skills - we provide support to the internal users of the systems we design, build, and operate. 

Compensation Range: 

• $139,000 - $174,000

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7494

#LI-Remote

We want people who care about empowering their peers to understand their services.

Observability Platforms is focused on creating visibility into DigitalOcean’s services and infrastructure. We design, build, and operate the internal logging, metrics, distributed tracing, error reporting, monitoring, and alerting platforms that are depended on to ensure good, reliable experiences for DigitalOcean’s customers. Through a mix of open source services and in-house developed software we seek to continuously improve the ability of DigitalOcean engineers and product managers to understand the behavior of their products and services in order to improve the experiences of our customers. 

What You'll Be Doing:

• Integrating and operating open source distributed data systems such as OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics, Kafka, and Clickhouse
• Implementing features to both improve the operability of our services and help design and implement the next generations of metrics and logging at DigitalOcean.
• Guiding other engineers on how they can best utilize our systems to gain confidence that their services are performing as expected.

What We'll Expect From You:

• Experience running and using distributed databases such as Opensearch, VictoriaMetrics, Clickhouse
• Experience with Kubernetes not just as an end user, but also an operator
• Experience writing software in Golang. Experience with the challenges of concurrency and distributed systems is a plus.
• Experience with DevOps tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and Github Actions (or other relevant CI/CD experience).
• An ability to work well as part of a geographically distributed team.
• Participation in a 24/7 on call rotation
• Someone who is motivated to learn, teach, grow, explore, and seek out areas we can improve
• Strong communication and customer service skills - we provide support to the internal users of the systems we design, build, and operate. 

Compensation Range: 

• $139,000 - $174,000

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7494

#LI-Remote

We are looking for a Senior Account Executive who is passionate about startups fueling the next wave of AI innovation. 

As a Senior Account Executive at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. We're looking for a driven Account Executive to embed themselves in the Bay Area's AI ecosystem. Your mission is to fuel our growth by partnering with the most promising AI startups, from stealth founders to rapidly scaling teams. In this role, you’ll be one of the main faces of DigitalOcean in the community, forging relationships with builders and technical leaders to win their business. Success means being a true customer advocate, working across teams to ensure the Bay Area's top innovators have the simple, powerful cloud they need to succeed.

What You’ll Do:

• Immerse yourself in the Bay Area AI ecosystem to identify, engage, and win the most promising startups. 
• Own the relationship with high potential AI accounts, acting as the primary point of contact for their business and technical needs.
• Advocate for your customers internally, working with support and engineering to remove technical roadblocks and ensure their success.
• Drive account growth by maintaining meaningful contact and identifying new opportunities.
• Manage and negotiate contract renewals, communicating the value of new features to drive expansion and upsell opportunities.
• Partner with marketing, product, and customer success teams to deliver a best-in-class customer experience.
• Translate customer feedback from the Bay Area AI community into clear insights for our Product and Engineering teams to shape the roadmap.

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• 5+ years experience as an account executive or account manager for a technical product or experience as a sales or support engineer.
• Cloud Infrastructure and AI experience required.
• You're a self starter, timely, and know how to prioritize tasks efficiently. 
• You have proven experience in contributing to onboarding and customer success pipelines and can speak knowledgeably as to how you'd implement them.
• You're friendly and professional, with excellent written and phone communication skills. You're on top of follow-up, prioritization of tasks, and proactive account management.
• You have relationship management experience and can effectively collect and communicate constructive feedback from customers 
• You will bring or develop a network of AI startups, founders and accelerators.

Compensation Range: 

• $148,800 - $186,000 base / OTE target: $250,000 - $310,000

*This is a remote role

#LI-Remote

Scope and mission: 

• Drive the design and operation of Gradient AI platform, focusing on delivering a simple and innovative agent development experience with best of breed scale, performance, and predictability. 
• Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across both backend systems and customer-facing interactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and Build
• Design and evolve the architecture for our agent development experience including code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions. 
• Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
• Manage and evolve our benchmarking system to continuously raise the bar on our experience.
• Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery. 
• Technical Leadership
• Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the AI/ML engineering teams.
• Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning.  
• Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team’s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps.
• Guide customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) to shape AI modernization initiatives via agents. 
• Reliability, Performance & Scaling
• Lead Operations Excellence for our Agent development platform, establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while raising the bar. 
• Oversee availability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Drive AI-driven automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
• Innovation & Future Roadmapping
• Drive development of internal tooling leveraging agents across the company, contributing towards increased efficiency and quality across all aspects of engineering.  
• Serve as subject matter expert on new agent development paradigms and lead implementation of mechanisms to productize them.

Qualifications:

• Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade AI/ML platforms using the latest GenAI and Agent-development technologies.
• Technical Experience: 10+ years in designing and building applications on the cloud with 5+ years experience in AI/ML platforms
• Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
• Operational excellence: Expertise in driving operational excellence via automation and best practices.
• Communication & Mentoring: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams.

Compensation Range:

• $227,040 - $283,800

*This is a remote role

#LI-Remote

#LI-SK1 

Scope and mission: 

• Drive the design and operation of Gradient AI platform, focusing on delivering a simple and innovative agent development experience with best of breed scale, performance, and predictability. 
• Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across both backend systems and customer-facing interactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and Build
• Design and evolve the architecture for our agent development experience including code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions. 
• Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
• Manage and evolve our benchmarking system to continuously raise the bar on our experience.
• Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery. 
• Technical Leadership
• Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the AI/ML engineering teams.
• Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning.  
• Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team’s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps.
• Guide customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) to shape AI modernization initiatives via agents. 
• Reliability, Performance & Scaling
• Lead Operations Excellence for our Agent development platform, establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while raising the bar. 
• Oversee availability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Drive AI-driven automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
• Innovation & Future Roadmapping
• Drive development of internal tooling leveraging agents across the company, contributing towards increased efficiency and quality across all aspects of engineering.  
• Serve as subject matter expert on new agent development paradigms and lead implementation of mechanisms to productize them.

Qualifications:

• Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade AI/ML platforms using the latest GenAI and Agent-development technologies.
• Technical Experience: 10+ years in designing and building applications on the cloud with 5+ years experience in AI/ML platforms
• Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
• Operational excellence: Expertise in driving operational excellence via automation and best practices.
• Communication & Mentoring: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams.

Compensation Range:

• $227,040 - $283,800

*This is a hybrid role

JR: 2025-7060

#LI-Hybrid 

Scope and mission: 

• Drive the design and operation of Gradient AI platform, focusing on delivering a simple and innovative agent development experience with best of breed scale, performance, and predictability. 
• Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across both backend systems and customer-facing interactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and Build
• Design and evolve the architecture for our agent development experience including code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions. 
• Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
• Manage and evolve our benchmarking system to continuously raise the bar on our experience.
• Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery. 
• Technical Leadership
• Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the AI/ML engineering teams.
• Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning.  
• Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team’s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps.
• Guide customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) to shape AI modernization initiatives via agents. 
• Reliability, Performance & Scaling
• Lead Operations Excellence for our Agent development platform, establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while raising the bar. 
• Oversee availability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Drive AI-driven automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
• Innovation & Future Roadmapping
• Drive development of internal tooling leveraging agents across the company, contributing towards increased efficiency and quality across all aspects of engineering.  
• Serve as subject matter expert on new agent development paradigms and lead implementation of mechanisms to productize them.

Qualifications:

• Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade AI/ML platforms using the latest GenAI and Agent-development technologies.
• Technical Experience: 10+ years in designing and building applications on the cloud with 5+ years experience in AI/ML platforms
• Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
• Operational excellence: Expertise in driving operational excellence via automation and best practices.
• Communication & Mentoring: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams.

Compensation Range:

• $227,040 - $283,800

*This is a remote role

#LI-Remote

#LI-SK1 

Scope and mission: 

• Drive the design and operation of Gradient AI platform, focusing on delivering a simple and innovative agent development experience with best of breed scale, performance, and predictability. 
• Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across both backend systems and customer-facing interactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and Build
• Design and evolve the architecture for our agent development experience including code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions. 
• Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
• Manage and evolve our benchmarking system to continuously raise the bar on our experience.
• Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery. 
• Technical Leadership
• Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the AI/ML engineering teams.
• Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning.  
• Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team’s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps.
• Guide customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) to shape AI modernization initiatives via agents. 
• Reliability, Performance & Scaling
• Lead Operations Excellence for our Agent development platform, establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while raising the bar. 
• Oversee availability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Drive AI-driven automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
• Innovation & Future Roadmapping
• Drive development of internal tooling leveraging agents across the company, contributing towards increased efficiency and quality across all aspects of engineering.  
• Serve as subject matter expert on new agent development paradigms and lead implementation of mechanisms to productize them.

Qualifications:

• Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade AI/ML platforms using the latest GenAI and Agent-development technologies.
• Technical Experience: 10+ years in designing and building applications on the cloud with 5+ years experience in AI/ML platforms
• Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
• Operational excellence: Expertise in driving operational excellence via automation and best practices.
• Communication & Mentoring: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams.

Compensation Range:

• $227,040 - $283,800

*This is a remote role

#LI-Remote

#LI-SK1 

Scope and mission: 

• Drive the design and operation of Gradient AI platform, focusing on delivering a simple and innovative agent development experience with best of breed scale, performance, and predictability. 
• Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across both backend systems and customer-facing interactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and Build
• Design and evolve the architecture for our agent development experience including code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions. 
• Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
• Manage and evolve our benchmarking system to continuously raise the bar on our experience.
• Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery. 
• Technical Leadership
• Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the AI/ML engineering teams.
• Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning.  
• Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team’s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps.
• Guide customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) to shape AI modernization initiatives via agents. 
• Reliability, Performance & Scaling
• Lead Operations Excellence for our Agent development platform, establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while raising the bar. 
• Oversee availability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Drive AI-driven automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
• Innovation & Future Roadmapping
• Drive development of internal tooling leveraging agents across the company, contributing towards increased efficiency and quality across all aspects of engineering.  
• Serve as subject matter expert on new agent development paradigms and lead implementation of mechanisms to productize them.

Qualifications:

• Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade AI/ML platforms using the latest GenAI and Agent-development technologies.
• Technical Experience: 10+ years in designing and building applications on the cloud with 5+ years experience in AI/ML platforms
• Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
• Operational excellence: Expertise in driving operational excellence via automation and best practices.
• Communication & Mentoring: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams.

Compensation Range:

• $272,448 - $340,560

*This is a remote role

#LI-Remote

#LI-SK1 

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

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

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

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

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