Jobs at DigitalOcean

Leads a multidisciplinary physical infrastructure engineering organization supporting global AI/GPU data centers. Owns engineering standards, specifications, technical decisions, reliability outcomes, vendor relationships, facility due diligence, root-cause analysis, compliance reviews, change governance, and corrective actions. Partners with operations, construction, and deployment teams to ensure scalable, reliable infrastructure. Oversees liquid cooling, power distribution, controls, audits, remediation, outsourced engineering resources, and technical talent development. Requires 20–30% travel for site due diligence, commissioning, and vendor reviews.

Leads a multidisciplinary physical infrastructure engineering organization supporting global AI/GPU data centers. Owns engineering standards, specifications, technical decisions, infrastructure reliability, vendor relationships, root-cause analysis, compliance reviews, site due diligence, and corrective actions. Partners with operations, construction, and deployment teams to ensure scalable, reliable data center expansion while developing technical talent and succession plans.

Partner with strategic customers to optimize their cloud infrastructure, drive retention and expansion, and resolve complex technical challenges. Responsibilities include architecture consultation, cloud optimization, QBRs, customer advocacy, escalation management, technical presentations, documentation, training, and developing tools to improve account management efficiency. The role requires strong cloud, Linux, automation, programming, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, packaging, pricing, and economics for DigitalOcean’s App Platform, Serverless Functions, and Container Registry. Lead developer experience, infrastructure efficiency, reliability, capacity, and cost-to-serve improvements while partnering with engineering, finance, infrastructure, marketing, sales, and support. Drive customer discovery, competitive analysis, launches, and post-launch outcomes across adoption, retention, revenue, margin, and performance.

Direct complex commercial negotiations for AI, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS offerings. Build scalable go-to-market contract processes, templates, playbooks, risk frameworks, and AI-enabled workflows. Partner with Sales, Finance, Operations, and Product on contract lifecycle management, quote-to-cash processes, automation, and legal tooling. Support strategic initiatives and provide practical risk guidance to senior stakeholders.

Own the end-to-end console experience, including navigation, information architecture, onboarding, shared surfaces, and reusable design patterns. Lead the design system, component library, roadmap, quality standards, and review processes across product teams. Partner closely with engineering to implement designs, develop UI capabilities, and grow design skills through guilds and reviews. Set the product’s creative direction while advocating for design investment through measurable UX impact.

Lead and unify global PR, corporate communications, analyst and influencer relations. Define corporate communication strategy, manage crisis response, oversee digital and social channels, set KPIs and attribution, counsel C-suite, and hire/mentor a high-performing communications team to drive brand awareness, trust, and pipeline influence.

Leads technical accounting for complex transactions, financing, M&A, investments, leases, impairments, and new accounting standards. Prepares accounting memos, supports SEC reporting, audits, disclosures, controls, valuations, cash flow and EPS calculations. Partners cross-functionally with Finance, Legal, Tax, FP&A, and external auditors while mentoring staff and improving accounting processes and automation.

Own and grow relationships with high-potential AI startups in the Bay Area. Identify and win new accounts, manage renewals, drive expansion and upsells, advocate for customers, remove technical roadblocks, and provide feedback to product and engineering teams. Collaborate with marketing, product, support, and customer success to deliver strong customer outcomes and expand DigitalOcean’s cloud and AI business.

Architect and implement scalable Managed Database control-plane and infrastructure systems. Improve performance, resiliency, failover, backups, recovery, observability, and multi-region operations for PostgreSQL and MySQL workloads. Lead complex cross-team technical initiatives, translate ambiguous requirements into architecture, operate production services, participate in on-call, and mentor engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and code reviews.

Leads the design, deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of cooling infrastructure for high-density data centers. Serves as the primary cooling subject matter expert and secondary power expert, establishes facility standards, selects scalable liquid-cooling systems, develops thermal monitoring and alerting capabilities, and partners with colocation, hardware, infrastructure, and operations teams. Manages, hires, mentors, and develops an engineering team while improving reliability and facility readiness for next-generation data center technologies.

Own complex SaaS deal execution from quoting through contracting and quote-to-cash, advising Sales, Finance, Legal, and Revenue Operations. Ensure pricing, discounting, revenue recognition, CRM data quality, and process compliance. Lead improvements to deal desk policies, playbooks, systems, automation, and AI initiatives. Define CRM and CPQ requirements, mentor analysts, train stakeholders, and independently resolve ambiguous, high-value deal situations.

Sell DigitalOcean cloud and AI solutions to venture-backed, AI-native startups. Responsibilities include prospecting, discovery, customized demonstrations, territory strategy, complex solution selling, pipeline management, quota attainment, and developing relationships with technical founders and CTOs. The role focuses on high-compute workloads, AI model deployment, cloud adoption, and strategic partnerships while collaborating with Solutions Architecture, Customer Success, and Product teams.

Owns end-to-end projects across DigitalOcean’s go-to-market systems, including implementations, integrations, automations, data flows, Salesforce configuration, and AI-powered workflows. Handles tier 2 escalations, diagnoses cross-system issues, builds durable fixes, supports solution design, coordinates vendors, documents reusable patterns, and mentors an engineer. The role requires deep Salesforce expertise, experience with multiple GTM tools, iPaaS or API integrations, SQL and warehouse fluency, AI systems familiarity, and the ability to review Apex, Python, or JavaScript.

Leads sales and use tax compliance, planning, controversy, and optimization while identifying and pursuing state and federal credits and incentives. Prepares tax analyses, calculations, filings, memoranda, and audit responses; monitors legislative developments; coordinates cross-functional workstreams; and partners with Finance, Legal, Infrastructure, tax advisors, and government authorities. The role also drives process improvements, manages projects, and communicates tax risks and opportunities to stakeholders.

Design, build, test, and optimize scalable control-plane and data-plane networking software. Develop APIs, improve performance, reliability, monitoring, and customer experience, support network products, establish engineering best practices, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong Go experience, distributed systems expertise, cloud and containerization knowledge, CI/CD experience, and familiarity with networking technologies including eBPF and XDP.

Design and build software for global network automation, provisioning, orchestration, telemetry, lifecycle management, and automated remediation. Integrate DPUs, SmartNICs, and programmable networking into highly available cloud infrastructure. Lead architecture, RFCs, technical proposals, and complex initiatives while mentoring engineers and setting technical direction across infrastructure teams.

Generate qualified pipeline across cloud and AI use cases through targeted outbound prospecting and inbound lead follow-up. Research accounts, engage technical decision-makers, conduct discovery and qualification calls, schedule meetings for Account Executives, and maintain accurate CRM activity. The role requires strong communication, prioritization, organization, curiosity about technical concepts, and collaboration with sales and marketing teams in a remote environment.

Lead DigitalOcean's global field and event marketing strategy, focusing on SF/Bay Area. Own first- and third-party events, drive pipeline and brand through creative attendee experiences, vendor networks, and repeatable playbooks. Partner with Sales, Product, and Growth, hire and develop the events team, and measure ROI across registrations, engagement, and revenue impact.

Lead DigitalOcean’s AI security strategy, governance framework, roadmap, and organizational programs. Build and operationalize AI/ML security controls, tooling, guardrails, and automation; conduct threat modeling, adversarial testing, and AI red teaming. Review AI architectures, guide high-risk product decisions, monitor deployed models, and address risks involving RAG, agents, model supply chains, and prompt injection. Represent AI security to executives and external communities while translating emerging research and threats into engineering guidance and policy.