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.
The App Platform team is at the core of DigitalOcean's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. Our mission is to build a fully managed platform that allows developers to build, deploy, and scale their applications simply by pushing code, without ever worrying about the underlying infrastructure. We manage the end-to-end experience, from source code to a globally available application, leveraging a modern stack to solve complex challenges in distributed systems, container orchestration, and developer experience.
What You'll Be Doing
Lead, mentor, and grow a multi‑team engineering organization, focusing on developing your Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders. Partner with senior leadership in Product, Design, and GTM to define the long‑term strategic vision and multi‑year roadmap for the App Platform. Scale and optimize the organization's execution across the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring your teams adhere to agile principles and deliver high‑quality, high‑velocity results. Provide high‑level technical and architectural direction for the entire App Platform ecosystem, empowering your organization to make high‑impact architectural decisions that align with the long‑term vision for scalability and reliability. Deep expertise in Golang and Kubernetes (k8s) is essential to guide your senior engineers and managers. Take ultimate ownership of the platform's health, reliability, and performance, driving a culture of operational excellence and customer obsession. Develop and track Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for your organization, aligning them with broader company goals and ensuring business value delivery. Act as the key engineering stakeholder for App Platform, partnering with senior leaders across DigitalOcean (including Kubernetes, Storage, and Networking) to build a seamless and cohesive product experience. What We’ll Expect From You
Extensive leadership experience, including a proven track record of managing other engineering managers and leading multi‑team organizations. Deep technical expertise and strategic understanding of Golang and Kubernetes, comfortable guiding senior‑level technical discussions. Strong experience scaling modern application development, with a deep understanding of the SDLC and agile best practices, including version control (Git). Awareness of the modern developer landscape, including Generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate development, debugging, and platform interaction. Significant experience building, managing, or defining strategy for services in a public cloud environment (DO, AWS, GCP, Azure). Direct, deep experience with PaaS, container orchestration, or CI/CD systems is a major plus. Strong foundation in building and operating scalable, reliable distributed systems. A deep commitment to operational excellence, meeting and exceeding SLAs, and customer obsession, using monitoring and observability to ensure a reliable end‑user experience. A product‑mindful leader who integrates user feedback and market analysis into engineering strategy, focusing on business value. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to communicate complex technical strategy to executive, technical, and non‑technical audiences. Compensation Range
$230,400 - $288,000 This is a remote role. Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
We innovate with purpose and 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 strong sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions. We prioritize career development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry, and our organizational development team will provide resources to keep you growing. We reimburse conferences and training and offer extensive online learning courses. We care about your well‑being with benefits such as an Employee Assistance Program, local meetups, flexible time off, and more. We reward our employees with competitive salary, potential bonuses, equity grants, 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. " #J-18808-Ljbffr
Lead, mentor, and grow a multi‑team engineering organization, focusing on developing your Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders. Partner with senior leadership in Product, Design, and GTM to define the long‑term strategic vision and multi‑year roadmap for the App Platform. Scale and optimize the organization's execution across the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring your teams adhere to agile principles and deliver high‑quality, high‑velocity results. Provide high‑level technical and architectural direction for the entire App Platform ecosystem, empowering your organization to make high‑impact architectural decisions that align with the long‑term vision for scalability and reliability. Deep expertise in Golang and Kubernetes (k8s) is essential to guide your senior engineers and managers. Take ultimate ownership of the platform's health, reliability, and performance, driving a culture of operational excellence and customer obsession. Develop and track Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for your organization, aligning them with broader company goals and ensuring business value delivery. Act as the key engineering stakeholder for App Platform, partnering with senior leaders across DigitalOcean (including Kubernetes, Storage, and Networking) to build a seamless and cohesive product experience. What We’ll Expect From You
Extensive leadership experience, including a proven track record of managing other engineering managers and leading multi‑team organizations. Deep technical expertise and strategic understanding of Golang and Kubernetes, comfortable guiding senior‑level technical discussions. Strong experience scaling modern application development, with a deep understanding of the SDLC and agile best practices, including version control (Git). Awareness of the modern developer landscape, including Generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate development, debugging, and platform interaction. Significant experience building, managing, or defining strategy for services in a public cloud environment (DO, AWS, GCP, Azure). Direct, deep experience with PaaS, container orchestration, or CI/CD systems is a major plus. Strong foundation in building and operating scalable, reliable distributed systems. A deep commitment to operational excellence, meeting and exceeding SLAs, and customer obsession, using monitoring and observability to ensure a reliable end‑user experience. A product‑mindful leader who integrates user feedback and market analysis into engineering strategy, focusing on business value. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to communicate complex technical strategy to executive, technical, and non‑technical audiences. Compensation Range
$230,400 - $288,000 This is a remote role. Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
We innovate with purpose and 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 strong sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions. We prioritize career development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry, and our organizational development team will provide resources to keep you growing. We reimburse conferences and training and offer extensive online learning courses. We care about your well‑being with benefits such as an Employee Assistance Program, local meetups, flexible time off, and more. We reward our employees with competitive salary, potential bonuses, equity grants, 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. " #J-18808-Ljbffr