Top Engineering Jobs

Design, implement, and maintain large-scale datacenter and global backbone networks. Diagnose and resolve complex network issues, automate provisioning and compliance with Python/Go/Salt, perform capacity planning, lead maintenance and migrations, run proofs-of-concept, and produce network documentation, runbooks, and BOMs while mentoring team members and coordinating incident responses.

Design, develop, test, and maintain DigitalOcean's low-level virtualization stack for Droplets. Collaborate across hardware, kernel, observability, and product teams to support scale, security, GPU/AI workloads, and new hardware. Contribute to open source virtualization projects, validate hardware, backport and deploy patches, improve release pipelines, and participate in on-call rotations.

Lead DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL: own strategy, architecture, reliability, scalability, and AI-native integration. Build hyperscaler-grade reliability, scale Advanced Edition for large workloads, partner across Product/GTM/SRE, and grow a high-performing global engineering organization.

The role involves guiding customers through Kubernetes migrations, optimizing cloud architectures, and collaborating with various teams to enhance customer success and product development.

The Senior Data Center Engineer II is responsible for deploying and maintaining data center infrastructure, troubleshooting hardware and software issues, managing documentation, and mentoring junior engineers.

Own and define next-generation server, GPU, storage, and infrastructure hardware architectures. Lead hardware selection, PoCs, vendor integrations, and scale pilots to global deployments. Translate AI/ML hardware trends into platform roadmaps, mentor engineers, and represent the company externally.

Lead design and roadmap for next-generation data center architectures. Own MEP, cooling, and power topologies (including 800VDC and liquid systems), run PoCs, guide site selection, scale pilots into global standards, mentor engineers, and represent the company externally.

Lead and scale DigitalOcean's Managed Database engineering organization to build, operate, and improve a customer-facing cloud database service. Own architecture, reliability, SLOs/SLIs, fleet operations, monitoring, incident response, backups, failover, scaling, and roadmap execution. Hire and develop engineering leaders, drive cross-functional partnerships, improve launch quality and velocity, and ensure operational excellence for relational database workloads.

Lead hardware architecture for DigitalOcean's next-generation CPU, GPU, storage, and infrastructure platforms. Own roadmap, drive hardware selection and qualification, design end-to-end server and storage topologies, run PoCs and scale pilots, mentor engineers, and represent the company externally.

Lead hardware design and vendor projects, develop hardware automation and orchestration, troubleshoot and triage Tier 3 fleet hardware issues, participate in 24/7 on-call rotation, improve firmware/configuration automation, mentor teammates, and support scaling of data center server platforms and components.