About this Senior Director, Engineering - Serverless Compute Engineering role at DigitalOcean
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
At DigitalOcean, we believe deploying and operating applications in the cloud should be simple. Customers shouldn't have to become infrastructure experts to build reliable, scalable applications. As we enter the era of Agentic AI, we're looking for a visionary leader to own the evolution of DigitalOcean's Serverless Compute. Services like our managed application platform, serverless platform, and serverless observability services—delivering the simple developer experience our customers love while providing the reliability, scalability, and operational visibility they need as they grow. This is a rare opportunity to define and drive the strategy for the platform that enables millions of developers and AI-native businesses to build, deploy, operate, and monitor applications with confidence.
As the Senior Director, Serverless Compute Engineering, this leader will define and own the strategy and execution of DigitalOcean's ServerlessCompute services, including application platform and serverless observability capabilities. This role will be responsible for making DigitalOcean the simplest place for developers to build, deploy, operate, and observe modern cloud-native and AI-native applications while driving operational excellence as we scale.
The Role
We are looking for a strategic technical leader to define, own, and lead the end-to-end execution and operational excellence of our next-generation serverless application platform. Reporting to the VP of Core Cloud Compute and Networking, you will define the long-term strategy for our serverless products, including App Platform, Functions, and Serverless Observability while delivering a world-class developer experience for deploying, operating, and monitoring modern applications.
What You'll Do
- Strategic Roadmap & Execution: Define and own the multi-year engineering strategy and execution roadmap for Serverless Functions, App Platform, and Observability, enabling customers to build, deploy, and operate applications with minimal operational overhead.
- Application Platform & Developer Experience: Lead the evolution of DigitalOcean's managed application platform to simplify application deployment, accelerate developer productivity, and support modern cloud-native and AI-native application architectures.
- Serverless Platform: Define and deliver the next generation of DigitalOcean Functions, enabling scalable, event-driven serverless workloads with improved performance, reliability, and developer experience.
- Serverless Observability Platform & Operational Excellence: Lead the evolution of DigitalOcean's serverless observability platform, delivering richer telemetry, monitoring, diagnostics, and operational insights while driving world-class operational excellence, availability, and reliability across the platform.
- Platform Scalability & Reliability: Drive the long-term architectural strategy to ensure the application platform scales efficiently, remains highly resilient, and supports the growing demands of AI-native applications and enterprise workloads.
- Customer & Business Growth: Execute platform initiatives that improve customer adoption, developer productivity, customer retention, and business growth while maintaining a simple and intuitive cloud experience.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with Product, Design, Compute, Networking, AI, Database, and Customer Success leadership to define the product roadmap, prioritize investments, and accelerate platform adoption.
- Organizational Excellence: Lead the engineering organization, building a high-performance culture that balances rapid innovation with operational excellence, engineering quality, and customer obsession.
What you’ll add to DigitalOcean:
- Technical Depth: Extensive experience building and operating large-scale cloud platforms, PaaS offerings and serverless platforms.
- Developer Platform Expertise: Deep understanding of developer platforms, deployment systems, observability, cloud-native technologies, and the operational challenges of running production applications at scale.
- Strategic Execution: Proven ability to define long-term product strategy, translate business goals into engineering execution, and deliver highly scalable platform capabilities that drive customer adoption and business growth.
- Leadership: Experience leading large, geographically distributed engineering organizations through significant platform evolution while maintaining a strong focus on reliability, operational excellence, engineering velocity, and customer experience.
*This job is located in Bengaluru, India
JR: 2026-8066
#LI-Hybrid
Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
