Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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 are looking for an Engineering Manager who is passionate about orchestration and scheduling of workloads and applications across diverse deployment environments.

As an Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. You’ll be working in the platform engineering group, part of Shared Services. You’ll help define safe golden paths for deployment across large fleets and enable developers to go faster while staying safe.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a team of back-end engineers developing tools and guardrails that allow the cloud to scale.
• Develop efficient team methods to adroitly delivery value to our customers.
• 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.
• Review and give input on architectural system designs.
• Lead the charge to operational excellence and keep toil in check.
• Pair with leads on delivery of features, and resolutions of defects.
• Career coaching including performance assessment, and career development.
• Escalation path for the on-call rotation, and drive improvements post incidents.
• Technologies we use: Kubernetes, Go, gRPC, Kafka, MySQL, Grafana, and Prometheus.
  
  

What You’ll Add To DigitalOcean

• Experience building software used by 1000s of users.
• Integrate regular user feedback into software development practices, and leverage customer feedback to drive features with a focus on always delivering value.
• 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.
• Chef and Hashicorp Nomad experience is a plus
  
  

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean

• 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 between $164,560.00 - $205,700.00 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.
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. 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.
• This is a remote role