Jobs at DigitalOcean

Design, build, and maintain security products and infrastructure: real-time detection engines (Flink/Kafka), high-performance APIs (Go/Node.js), streaming analytics, Kubernetes at hyperscale, and petabyte-scale data pipelines. Lead technical designs, collaborate with security teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, implement, and maintain large-scale datacenter and global backbone networks. Diagnose and resolve complex network issues, automate provisioning and compliance with Python/Go/Salt, perform capacity planning, lead maintenance and migrations, run proofs-of-concept, and produce network documentation, runbooks, and BOMs while mentoring team members and coordinating incident responses.

Design, develop, test, and maintain DigitalOcean's low-level virtualization stack for Droplets. Collaborate across hardware, kernel, observability, and product teams to support scale, security, GPU/AI workloads, and new hardware. Contribute to open source virtualization projects, validate hardware, backport and deploy patches, improve release pipelines, and participate in on-call rotations.

Lead DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL: own strategy, architecture, reliability, scalability, and AI-native integration. Build hyperscaler-grade reliability, scale Advanced Edition for large workloads, partner across Product/GTM/SRE, and grow a high-performing global engineering organization.

The Staff AI Product Manager will drive product strategy for GPU offerings, conduct market analysis, collaborate with teams for product development, and advocate for customer needs. Responsible for managing product lifecycle and utilizing data-driven approaches for product success.

The Senior Data Center Engineer II is responsible for deploying and maintaining data center infrastructure, troubleshooting hardware and software issues, managing documentation, and mentoring junior engineers.

Lead hardware architecture for DigitalOcean's next-generation CPU, GPU, storage, and infrastructure platforms. Own roadmap, drive hardware selection and qualification, design end-to-end server and storage topologies, run PoCs and scale pilots, mentor engineers, and represent the company externally.

Lead hardware design and vendor projects, develop hardware automation and orchestration, troubleshoot and triage Tier 3 fleet hardware issues, participate in 24/7 on-call rotation, improve firmware/configuration automation, mentor teammates, and support scaling of data center server platforms and components.

Lead design and future architecture of DigitalOcean data centers, owning MEP, cooling and power topologies (air to 800VDC liquid rack-scale), run PoCs, support site selection, mentor engineers, and translate AI/ML hardware roadmaps into scalable, deployable global standards.

Lead and validate large-scale data center deployments including rack builds, cabling validation, hardware and GPU rollouts, vendor coordination, troubleshooting across hardware, cabling, Linux, networking and optics, training site teams, maintaining runbooks and tooling, and supporting extended onsite domestic and international deployment schedules.

Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team to build and deliver scalable security products (IAM, threat detection, data protection). Drive technical roadmap, manage delivery timelines and inter-team dependencies, prioritize technical debt, ensure code quality and security best practices, collaborate with product and security architects, and handle recruitment and career development.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and develop security products, build high-performance APIs and microservices, and lead complex security features from conception to production.

Manage the execution of Security Products by translating customer needs into requirements, collaborating with engineering and UX, and ensuring consistent communication for product launches and incidents.

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for designing and building scalable network services, solving complex challenges in distributed networking, and enhancing system performance for DigitalOcean's infrastructure.

As a Manager, Financial Reporting at DigitalOcean, you will oversee SEC filings, prepare financial statements, manage quarterly reporting, liaise with auditors, mentor junior staff, and enhance internal controls.

Lead and grow the Inference Orchestration engineering team to design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based AI infrastructure at scale. Drive scheduling, GPU utilization, topology-aware placement, checkpoint/restore for long jobs, fault tolerance, model distribution, security isolation, and cross-functional delivery to meet performance, cost, and reliability goals.

Lead the design and implementation of an integrated ISO-focused compliance program, expand product-level certification scope, run risk assessments and remediation, author security policies, design engineering-friendly controls, manage cross-functional compliance projects, support incident response and customer compliance inquiries, and serve as the GRC subject-matter expert to mature SOC 2, HIPAA, and multiple ISO standards.

Serve as a strategic technical partner for key customers: design and advise on cloud architectures, run technical workshops, proactively monitor usage, resolve escalations with engineering, drive retention and expansion, and develop tools and documentation to improve Technical Account Management efficiency.

As a Cloud Operations Administrator, ensure uptime for infrastructure, automate processes, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate operational work for improvement.

Lead design, implementation, and management of global benefits, wellness, and leave programs. Drive strategy, vendor management, financial modeling, open enrollment, compliance, and automation across multiple international markets to optimize cost, employee experience, and regulatory adherence.