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Design, optimize, and maintain Linux kernels for DigitalOcean's compute and GPU fleets. Diagnose kernel and VM issues, deliver live-patch fixes, tune for latency/throughput/power, improve tooling and automation, implement monitoring, influence hardware roadmaps, mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute upstream kernel patches.

Lead the Sustaining Engineering team in supporting and troubleshooting server hardware, firmware, and infrastructure in a fast-paced environment. Collaborate with various teams and drive issues to resolution while developing operational standards.

The Cloud Support Engineer - Database at DigitalOcean provides technical support for cloud databases, troubleshooting issues, optimizing performance, and guiding customer best practices. Responsibilities include incident response, technical documentation, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance customer experiences.

The Data Center Engineer I is responsible for deploying and maintaining infrastructure, diagnosing issues, managing inventory, and collaborating with peers in a data center environment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.