Manage and lead a collaborative engineering team to ensure uptime and operational efficiency of cloud products, while mentoring engineers and automating issue resolution.
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
We are looking for a software development manager to help us keep the cloud running smoothly. Reporting to the senior manager of Resiliency, the Fleet Health Manager leads an uptime focused team which delivers automation to keep our products healthy. You will interface with teams across the organization to identify and automate the resolution of issues before they impact our customers.
What You'll Be Doing:- Growing and leading a highly-collaborative engineering team
- Helping the team achieve higher standards of performance and product quality
- Introducing and improving processes for team performance and quality-of-life
- Collaborating with product owners and cross-functional teams to design idiomatic, feature-rich, and operationally sustainable software solutions
- Oversee the design and implementation of automating processes and building tools to improve operational efficiency
- Facilitating transparent, constructive communication and a fair, but growth-oriented, distribution of responsibilities between team members
- Providing coaching and counseling via mentoring, one-on-one meetings, etc
- Ensuring maximum uptime for our global infrastructure
- Coordinating operational work across teams to improve the platform with minimal impact
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering
- Experience with Linux operating systems or Networking
- A passion for leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers
- Enduring interest in distributed systems design, AI/ML, and implementation at scale in the cloud.
- Experience researching, evaluating, and building with open source technologies
- Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in cloud development, such as Python and Go
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible
- Experience with various GPU platforms from AMD and NVIDIA and associated toolsets for tuning, configuring, and accelerating workloads on them would be ideal, but not required
- Knowledge of networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, VPCs, subnets, routing) and storage systems
- A strong sense of ownership and a drive to figure out and resolve any issues preventing you and your team from delivering value to your customers
- Familiarity with end-to-end quality best practices and their implementation
- $151,700 - $189,600
*This is a remote role
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Top Skills
Ansible
Go
Linux
Python
Terraform
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