Jobs at DigitalOcean

Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, pricing, and platform economics for DigitalOcean’s App Platform, Serverless Functions, and Container Registry. Partner with engineering, infrastructure, finance, and go-to-market teams to improve developer experience, utilization, reliability, cost efficiency, and growth. Lead customer discovery, architecture tradeoffs, launches, competitive analysis, and post-launch outcomes across managed compute services.

Designs and operates scalable managed database infrastructure and distributed control-plane systems. The role owns architecture, performance, resiliency, automated failover, backups, recovery, observability, and production reliability for PostgreSQL and MySQL services. It also leads complex cross-team technical initiatives, mentors engineers, participates in on-call rotations, and supports high-concurrency data and AI-adjacent workloads.

Own complex, non-standard, and high-value deal execution from quoting through contracting and quote-to-cash. Partner with Sales, Finance, Legal, and Revenue Operations to resolve issues, enforce pricing and revenue policies, maintain CRM data quality, and improve deal desk processes. Define CRM and CPQ system requirements, lead automation and AI-enabled process improvements, optimize policies and playbooks, and mentor analysts while presenting data-driven recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Own recruiting operations systems, processes, data quality, reporting, and technology enablement. Manage ATS and scheduling tools, build scalable workflows, improve recruiting efficiency through automation and AI, oversee vendor relationships, define KPIs, and partner with People Operations, Legal, and Finance on hiring processes. Lead cross-functional adoption and maintain audit-ready processes suitable for a public company.

Owns project delivery across DigitalOcean’s go-to-market systems, including Salesforce, sales engagement, customer success, CPQ, enrichment, and data platforms. Builds integrations, automations, AI-powered workflows, and data flows; manages tier 2 escalations; performs Salesforce administration; supports solution design, vendor coordination, testing, rollout, and enablement. The role also documents reusable patterns, mentors an engineer, and partners with technical program management on cross-system initiatives.

Leads sales and use tax compliance, planning, controversy, optimization, and refund recovery. Manages state and federal credits and incentives, including data center programs, New Markets Tax Credits, and Qualified Opportunity Zones. Prepares technical analyses, calculations, filings, memoranda, and audit responses while coordinating cross-functional tax initiatives with Finance, Legal, Infrastructure, advisors, and tax authorities.

Develop and operate scalable DNS control-plane software and network services. Build APIs, improve customer-facing products, troubleshoot performance and monitoring issues, and collaborate across networking teams. Responsibilities include testing, optimization, reliability improvements, architecture best practices, and supporting mission-critical cloud infrastructure using Go, Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Kafka, and related technologies.

Designs, builds, tests, and optimizes scalable control-plane and data-plane network services. Develops APIs, improves performance, monitoring, reliability, and customer experience, while supporting existing products and establishing engineering best practices. Collaborates across teams on API contracts, cloud-native systems, and mission-critical software. Mentors engineers and contributes to automation, testing, deployment, and production operations.

Design, develop, and optimize high-performance network datapath software for cloud infrastructure. Build packet-processing, routing, forwarding, observability, and hardware-accelerated networking systems across Linux hosts, kernels, user space, and NICs. Investigate production performance and reliability issues, create testing and benchmarking frameworks, author technical designs, collaborate across infrastructure teams, and mentor engineers.

Develop and maintain scalable cloud network control-plane software, including APIs, services, tools, and customer-facing products. Implement, test, optimize, and support high-performance distributed systems while improving reliability, monitoring, development processes, and architecture. Collaborate across networking teams to establish API contracts and build next-generation products using Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, gRPC, and related cloud technologies.

Design and build software for global network infrastructure, including automation, orchestration, provisioning, device lifecycle management, telemetry, validation, and remediation. Integrate DPUs, SmartNICs, and programmable network infrastructure into scalable cloud systems. Establish architecture and technical direction, write RFCs and design documents, lead complex initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate across network, infrastructure, hardware, security, storage, and compute teams.

Own technical revenue accounting for complex customer, partnership, and marketplace arrangements. Evaluate ASC 606 requirements, variable consideration, contract modifications, and evolving pricing structures. Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Legal, Product, Billing, Engineering, and Finance to operationalize new monetization models. Manage recurring accounting, close activities, controls, reconciliations, disclosures, audit support, and scalable process, system, automation, and AI-enabled improvements.

Lead and evolve the insider threat program by engineering detection, automating investigation workflows, tuning UEBA/SIEM/DLP/UAM/SOAR detection content, conducting threat hunting and DFIR, collaborating with HR/Legal, and using data analytics (e.g., Pandas) to investigate anomalous activity and reduce internal risk.

Lead DigitalOcean’s AI security strategy, governance framework, and multi-year roadmap. Secure AI/ML systems across data ingestion, training, model serving, RAG, agents, and monitoring. Conduct AI red teaming, threat modeling, security reviews, and adversarial testing, while building defensive tooling and guardrails. Advise executives and the board on AI risk, guide engineering teams, and define organizational policies for responsible AI security.

Negotiate and provide legal guidance on datacenter leases, colocation, design/build, facilities, operations and maintenance, and infrastructure procurement agreements. Partner with procurement, engineering, operations, finance, tax, compliance, and local counsel on transactions, risk allocation, international expansion, and supplier matters. Develop contracting templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and approval matrices while supporting other high-priority legal work.

Architect and develop high-availability IAM services in Go, including authentication, authorization, SSO, policy engines, multi-tenant identity models, and secure AI workflows. Own service reliability, Kubernetes deployments, event-driven migrations, and vulnerability remediation. Lead major technical workstreams, conduct code reviews, and mentor engineers while collaborating across teams.

Own DigitalOcean’s enterprise AI-native architecture, including agent orchestration, shared AI platform services, tool and capability layers, enterprise-system integrations, identity, authorization, governance, observability, evaluation, and cost controls. Build production prototypes and reference implementations, write code, establish technical standards, mentor distributed engineers, and re-engineer business workflows with functional teams. Partner across platform engineering, security, identity, data, and business technology to deliver governed, scalable agentic systems.

Lead architecture and low-level optimizations for LLM inference to maximize throughput and minimize latency. Profile and optimize GPU kernels, implement quantization and parallelization strategies (FP8/INT8/FP4), tune libraries (AITER, Triton, CUDA, ROCm), and mentor engineers while translating hardware limits into shippable platform features.

Lead threat modeling and risk management for DigitalOcean's virtualization stack. Build frameworks and rubrics to assess hypervisor risk, propose and implement defense-in-depth mitigations, collaborate with engineering teams on remediation, mentor teams on secure design, and help oversee vulnerability management and security guidance.

Design and build real-time security detection engines and streaming analytics using Apache Flink and Kafka. Develop high-performance security APIs and microservices in Go and Node.js, architect Kubernetes-based security solutions, and build petabyte-scale data pipelines. Lead technical design, collaborate with security teams, and mentor junior engineers.