Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
We want people who are passionate about building features that you and your peers will love.DigitalOcean is welcoming a new technical engineering manager to support our engineers, grow our culture, and lead the team developing our customer and platform engineering product offerings. This person will be responsible for guiding the development of a mixed-skill engineering team, facilitating communications, providing clarity of vision and priority, and empowering the team to create creative solutions for our DigitalOcean customers.
The teams mission is to simplify the customer and developer experience so they can focus on building and operating their applications to Get Growing.
We are excited to meet candidates who share our passions for technology solutions, healthy services, and being loving service providers, team members, and leaders.
What You’ll Do:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4+ years in a senior leadership or management role.
- Proven track record of delivering complex cloud-scale distributed systems, particularly in customer experience.
- Lead a team of back-end software engineers developing gRPC APIs and operating infrastructure for our observability (metrics, logging, alerting) solutions.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills within a global organizational structure.
- Develop efficient team methods to adroitly delivery value to our customers.
- Collaborate across the organization and consistently interface with UI, UX, customer success, marketing, and engineering teams.
- Develop Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and utilize these Key Results to measure and report on the success of the team.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define roadmaps to build the next generation of products for our developer community.
- Review and give input on architectural system designs.
- Pair with leads on delivery of features, and resolutions of defects.
- Career coaching including performance assessment, and career development.
- Collaborate directly with customers to learn more about their jobs to be done and how DigitalOcean can better serve them.
- Escalation path for the product on-call rotation, and drive improvements post incidents.
- Technologies we use: Go/Java, Distributed systems
- Experience building software used by 1000s of users.
- Integrate regular customer feedback into software development practices, and leverage customer feedback to drive features with a focus on always delivering value to DigitalOcean customers.
- Awareness and authentic interest in learning in areas such as Golang gRPC principles, infrastructure operations, large language models.
- Regularly give feedback to team members on wins, and areas to improve.
- Lead a team where individuals enjoy coming to work, know what needs to be done, and have the resources to get their job done.
- Efficiently manage the team to deliver value for users and the business.
- Identify issues impeding software development (across all phases of a service lifecycle from conception to maintenance) and collaborate with the team to resolve and improve.
- A commitment to delivering scalable reliable systems..
- Systems thinking.
- Strong opinions, weakly held.
*This job is located in Bengaluru, India
JR: 2026-8182
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- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years in a senior leadership or engineering management role
- Experience delivering complex cloud-scale distributed systems
- Experience leading backend software engineers
- Experience with Go or Java
- Experience with distributed systems
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience building software used by thousands of users
- Experience with infrastructure operations and scalable, reliable systems
- Experience with observability solutions, including metrics, logging, or alerting
- Experience with gRPC or willingness to learn Golang gRPC principles
- Awareness or interest in large language models
DigitalOcean Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as market‑leading across medical, dental, vision, and mental health, with above‑average employer contributions and 100% employer‑paid life, AD&D, and disability insurance. Some materials note fully paid health benefits for employees in certain locations, though details vary by region.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employees are offered company equity alongside an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) that enables discounted share purchases, with references to performance equity grants as part of total rewards. This ownership component complements competitive cash pay and bonuses highlighted in company materials.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental benefits are positioned as above‑average, with references to fully paid parental leave (e.g., 10 weeks in newer listings) and a part‑time transition‑back program. Fertility and parenthood support such as Carrot is also called out.
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What We Do
DigitalOcean is the Inference Cloud — a full-stack, production-ready cloud platform built to run AI applications with predictable performance, sustainable economics, and radically simpler operations at scale. We are built for teams turning AI into real products — not just training models. Our advantage is not fewer features, but fewer failure modes when operating AI at scale — combining minimal operational overhead, predictable cost efficiency, and a full-stack cloud that works as a system. Hyperscalers are broad by design. Neoclouds are infrastructure-first. DigitalOcean is inference-first — with a real cloud underneath. It combines inference-optimized compute, managed inference software, and integrated cloud capabilities that reduce operational burden for teams running real workloads. Inference is the foundation—not the boundary. Everything else builds on top of it.
Why Work With Us
At DO, we do career-defining work. We innovate with AI and build cutting-edge tech. Our rewards to match that intensity - to motivate you, recognize your impact, and give you what you need to thrive. If you have a growth mindset, like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment, you'll find your place here.
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