Job Description

DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.

We want people who are passionate about supporting people and making sure our teams are strategic and thoughtful about enabling and developing their talent to drive performance.

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a core function in our network engineering department, someone who will collaborate closely with product teams and business partners to prioritize and advance our shared strategic goals. You will play a key role in both engineering and design processes, while also providing guidance and mentorship to a group of engineers. You should have a strong understanding of what it takes to lead efficient engineering teams and maintain a strong focus on user needs. 

This team is responsible for building secure, reliable, and adaptable systems that empower our product teams to quickly launch products that meet the evolving needs of our users. This person will be responsible for guiding the development of a back-end engineering team, fostering clear communication across teams and with senior leadership, aligning priorities, and enabling the team to craft innovative solutions. We are eager to connect with candidates who share our enthusiasm for technological innovation, maintaining robust services, and embodying a supportive spirit as service providers, team members, and leaders.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Planning and executing complex technical projects.
• Developing efficient team processes to effectively deliver value to our customers and the business.
• Collaborating across the organization and consistently interfacing with product and platform engineering teams across the company.
• Developing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and utilizing these Key Results to measure and report on the success of the team.
• Developing processes and tools to improve team performance and quality-of-life.
• Developing processes and tools to improve product performance and quality.
• Reviewing and giving input on architectural system designs.
• Career coaching including performance assessment, and career development.
• Technologies we use: Kubernetes, Go, gRPC, Kafka, SQL, Grafana, and Prometheus.

What We'll Expect From You:

• Experience managing, coaching, and mentoring software engineers
• Experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling internal platforms.
• Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
• 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.
• Experience managing and delivering projects throughout the entire SDLC
• Experience developing cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, operations, support, and product groups
• Experience with end-to-end quality best practices and their implementation
• Experience with staffing, interviewing, building, and retaining teams
• Experience conveying complex ideas in written, verbal and presentational formats