Overview
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. We serve the developer community and the businesses they build with a relentless pursuit of simplicity, valuing boldness, speed, simplicity, ownership, and a growth mindset. We are committed to building truly useful products and supporting the dreamers and builders in the world. We are a remote-friendly company with global opportunities.
We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the migrations track within our Forward Engineering team. In this role, you’ll own the technical strategy, roadmap, and execution for making migrations to DigitalOcean smooth, scalable, and customer-friendly. Your work will help teams of all sizes—from startups to growing businesses—move onto our platform with confidence.
What You’ll Be Doing
Lead the development of tools and systems that help customers seamlessly migrate to DigitalOcean’s cloud platform.
Define the engineering roadmap for the migration experience, balancing short-term needs with long-term platform goals.
Partner cross-functionally with support, customer success, and product teams to understand customer challenges and prioritize the right solutions.
Own team health and delivery—creating clarity around goals, fostering psychological safety, and setting high technical standards.
Establish and track success metrics to ensure engineering efforts are delivering measurable customer and business value.
Champion operational excellence, scalable architecture, and a developer-first mindset.
What We Expect From You
12+ years of software engineering experience. 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
A proven track record of delivering complex backend or infrastructure products, ideally related to migrations or cloud services.
Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and systems design.
Ability to balance engineering trade-offs with customer and business impact.
Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, low-ego leadership style.
Experience building and growing high-performing, diverse engineering teams.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Why You’ll Like Working For DigitalOcean
We innovate with purpose. You’ll be part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, focused on simplifying cloud and AI so builders can create software that changes the world. You will be an owner who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, with a strong sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
We prioritize career development. You’ll work with some of the smartest people in the industry, in a high-performance environment that challenges you to grow. Resources include reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, plus access to LinkedIn Learning’s courses.
We care about well-being. We offer a competitive benefits portfolio that supports you, with local variations by location.
We reward our employees. Salary range is $192,000 - $288,000, with potential bonuses and equity compensation, including options to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer and strive for an inclusive workplace without discrimination based on race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
This is a remote role.
Additional role information
Seniority level: Director
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Internet Publishing
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