Engineering Manager, Compute Cloud Services

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 building features that you and your peers will love. DigitalOcean's Cloud Engineering Team is welcoming a new technical engineering manager to support our engineers, grow our culture, and lead the team developing our software-defined Compute products. Upon selection, you will be responsible for guiding the development of a mixed-skill engineering team, facilitating communications, providing clarity of vision and priority, and empowering the team to create creative solutions for our partners and customers.This team focuses on supporting the operations and development of business logic, middleware, edge, and API solutions of DigitalOcean Compute products such as our Droplet, Virtual Private Clouds, etc.If you are someone who shares our passions for technology solutions, healthy services, and being loving service providers, team members, and leaders, we want to meet you

• Growing and leading a highly-collaborative engineering team
• Developing and shepherding complex cloud engineering projects
• Helping the team achieve higher standards of performance and product quality
• Introducing and improving processes for team performance and quality-of-life
• Collaborating with product owners and cross-functional teams to design idiomatic, feature-rich, and operationally sustainable software solutions
• Oversee the design and implementation of scalable, automated systems for DNS provisioning, monitoring, and failover.
• Facilitating transparent, constructive communication and a fair, but growth-oriented, distribution of responsibilities between team members
• Providing coaching and counseling via mentoring, one-on-one meetings, etc

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure or network engineering, with 2+ years in a people management or team lead role.
• A passion for leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers
• Interest in distributed systems design and implementation at scale or in the cloud.
• Deep expertise in cloud computing platforms and strong understanding of compute virtualisation technologies, containerisation platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in cloud development, such as Python, Go.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC)tools like Terraform or Ansible
• Knowledge of networking concepts(e.g., TCP/IP, VPCs, subnets, routing) and storage systems
• Expertise in AI/ML is a strong plus not mandatory skill.
• An appreciation for process and developing cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, operations, support, and product groups
• Strong project management skills
• Familiarity with end-to-end quality best practices and their implementation
• Enthusiasm for staffing, interviewing, growing, and retaining teams

• 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.
• 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 job is located in Hyderabad, India and is a hybrid role.

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