Sr. Director, Engineering

Sr. Director, Engineering

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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 high performing teams that operate at scale.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Working in close partnership with Product Management, Design and other core product directors (Networking, Storage, AI Infrastructure) to deliver key Compute products.
• Optimizing Compute fleet performance and efficiency at scale across our globally distributed Data Centers.
• Defining and executing on the next generation of high performance Compute products.
• Develop quarterly goals and objectives that help keep your teams aligned with the vision and higher‑level company goals.
• Make large prioritization decisions, and tradeoffs between schedule, scope, cost.
• Attract, develop and retain the people required to deliver your plan.
• Actively coach and develop the managers and technical leaders within your organization, and create a healthy culture that supports delivery over the long term.
• Command the economics tied to your organization. This includes ROI considerations, revenue impact, margins, opex and capex budgets.
• Actively participate in the yearly and quarterly budget process and make strategic and tactical decisions to manage to these budgets.
• Be an open communicator within DigitalOcean in both written and spoken form. Routinely present at company AMAs.
• As a director you will be expected to drive a company initiative that does not fit nicely in a box, or has impact beyond your immediate organization.

What We’ll Expect From You

Compensation Range

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean

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