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Designs and scales data center hardware platforms and automation across DigitalOcean’s infrastructure. Responsibilities include leading hardware design and vendor projects, developing hardware roadmaps, automating configuration and validation, troubleshooting fleet hardware as a Tier 3 escalation, supporting 24/7 on-call operations, improving firmware and hardware automation, collaborating with vendors, and mentoring engineers. The role requires deep server architecture, Linux, networking, storage, firmware, configuration management, and large-scale hardware automation expertise.

Build automation and internal tools for DigitalOcean’s physical infrastructure using Go, Python, and AI-assisted development. Partner with technical program managers and infrastructure teams to identify and eliminate repetitive manual work, improve hardware and capacity visibility, and support hardware lifecycle engineering. Take automation workflows from discovery through reliable deployment, simplify complex systems, demonstrate work to engineering teams, and contribute to cross-functional infrastructure projects in a hybrid, asynchronous environment.

Supports sustaining engineering for DigitalOcean’s server fleet, including hardware, firmware, cabling, and networking throughout their operational lifecycle. Responsibilities include monitoring and resolving Jira issues, providing Tier 2 escalation support, participating in 24/7 on-call rotation, developing operational standards, creating tooling and runbooks, coordinating monitoring and alerting, troubleshooting failures, and collaborating with infrastructure, firmware, qualification, and operations teams.

Leads electrical, mechanical, controls, and infrastructure engineering for AI and cloud data centers. Develops engineering standards for GPU facilities and liquid cooling, oversees new builds and retrofits, performs colocation due diligence, and supports operations, construction, deployment, and design teams. Owns infrastructure specifications, documentation, and governance while driving reliability, scalability, compliance, operational excellence, talent development, and succession planning across the engineering organization.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.