Director of Engineering

Join DigitalOcean as the Director of Engineering and lead the App Platform engineering organization. This role involves strategic vision, technical direction, and leadership of multiple teams.

Requirements

• Leadership Experience: Extensive leadership experience, including a proven track record of managing other engineering managers and leading multi-team organizations.
• Technical Expertise (Must-Have): Deep technical expertise and strategic understanding of Golang and Kubernetes.
• SDLC & Application Development: Strong experience in scaling modern application development and a deep understanding of the SDLC process at an organizational level.
• AI-Assisted Development: Awareness of the modern developer landscape, including the use of Generative AI and AI-assisted 'vibe coding' tools (like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate development, debugging, and platform interaction.
• Cloud & PaaS Knowledge: Significant experience building, managing, or defining strategy for services in a public cloud environment (DO, AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Distributed Systems: Strong foundation in building and operating scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems at scale.
• Operational Rigor & Customer Obsession: A deep commitment to operational excellence focused on meeting and exceeding SLAs.
• Product-Minded: A strong, product-minded leader with experience integrating user feedback and market analysis into engineering strategy.
• Excellent Communication: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical strategy to executive, technical, and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• Flexible time off policy
• Employee Assistance Program
• Local Employee Meetups
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
• Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
• Competitive array of benefits to support employee well-being