Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

Based in New York and Cambridge, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing for every developer. We are working on solving some of the most challenging and interesting technology projects around, on a scale unmatched by few companies.

We want people who are passionate about building the infrastructure and platforms that will improve the resiliency, scaling, and development speed for cloud services.

We are looking for an experienced engineering manager with a background in leading company-wide platform initiatives to help drive the definition and delivery of services for DigitalOcean’s development platform. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Platform, the Engineering Manager will oversee the team’s priorities, scheduling, delivery, and operations of the various platform services.

This is an opportunity to lead a team focused on building the services and systems that will accelerate the development of DigitalOcean’s cloud features. This is a high impact role that is essential for DigitalOcean to meet the needs of its growing customer base and provide a comprehensive set of cloud-based services.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Defining and driving the development of key services for data and networking platforms
• Leveling up the team through smart hiring, skills development, and cross-training
• Establishing best practices for development, deployment, and operations
• Working with peer teams to gather needs and define requirements
• Driving adoption of services throughout the company

What We’ll Expect From You:

• Distinguished track record of managing platform solutions from conception to delivery
• Experience with core technologies for data and networking including services such as MySQL, Kafka, Envoy, HAProxy, and Kubernetes
• Delivering solutions as a service (e.g. DBaaS, KaaS, etc.) that facilitate adoption and offer operational elegance
• Ability to direct several initiatives in parallel and manage priorities and schedules

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
• We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
• We care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
• We invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We want you to love where you work. We have great office spaces located in the heart of SoHo NYC and Cambridge, and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to take an all-expense-paid trip to our office to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in office.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.