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 taking complex concepts and providing a simple and accessible experience for users. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone. The Gradient Platform team is responsible for creating tools so that developers can easily create AI Agents for real world problems. We’re a fast-pace team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.
What You’ll Be Doing:- Lead technical and technology projects across many teams and pillars
- Head up operational excellence for the group ensure SLAs/SLOs are met
- Support driving technology/engineering standards and strategy for the group
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for multiple teams
- Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
- Work primarily in Typescript, React, GraphQL, Python, and Go
- Build UI components, libraries, tools, and services that power platform
- Maintain and develop the Go and GraphQL API
- Collaborate on design and UX
- Participate and support in operational excellence
- Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
- Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions
- Experience in driving technical projects in a fast pace environment
- Experience driving operational excellence in mission-critical cloud environment
- Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
- Strong interest in development platforms, Data Engineering, MLOps, AI, CI/CD, infrastructure or making products for technical teams
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
- 5+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building UI component libraries, design systems, and tools using TypeScript
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
- Knowledge of API standards including REST or GraphQL
- $260,000 - $300,000
*This is a remote role
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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.
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DigitalOcean simplifies cloud computing so businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With its mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean helps developers at startups and growing digital businesses rapidly build, deploy and scale, whether creating a digital presence or building digital products. DigitalOcean combines the power of simplicity, security, community and customer support so customers can spend less time managing their infrastructure and more time building innovative applications that drive business growth.
Why Work With Us
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, you'll find your place here!
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