DigitalOcean is looking to revolutionize cloud and AI by simplifying migrations for businesses of all sizes onto their platform, aiming to reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase simplicity and speed for their customers.
Requirements
- A proven track record of delivering complex backend or infrastructure products, ideally related to migrations or cloud services.
- Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and systems design.
- Ability to balance engineering trade-offs with customer and business impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of tools and systems that help customers seamlessly migrate to DigitalOcean’s cloud platform.
- Define the engineering roadmap for the migration experience, balancing short-term needs with long-term platform goals.
- Own team health and delivery—creating clarity around goals, fostering psychological safety, and setting high technical standards.
- Partner with system integrators to drive scalable migrations in a partner-enabled model.
- Establish and track success metrics to ensure engineering efforts are delivering measurable customer and business value.
- Champion operational excellence, scalable architecture, and a developer-first mindset.
Other
- 12+ years of software engineering experience.
- 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, low-ego leadership style.
- Experience building and growing diverse, high-performing engineering teams.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
