Full-Time

Senior Manager

Network Products

Posted on 1/7/2025

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

1,001-5,000 employees

Cloud computing platform for developers

Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software

Compensation Overview

$154k - $213kAnnually

+ Bonus + Equity Compensation

Senior

Remote in USA

This is a remote role.

Category
Backend Engineering
Software Engineering
Requirements
  • Direct experience with managing, coaching, and mentoring software engineers - a people first attitude
  • Domain expertise in Networking stack and having shipped products at scale with a strong customer focus
  • Proven track record of managing and delivering projects throughout the entire SDLC, delivering products to market on schedule and ensuring feedback loops from customers work their way into development
  • Experience introducing and growing a quick release development environment with short cycles
  • Experience developing cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, operations, support, and product groups
  • Experience with staffing, interviewing, retaining and building high performing teams
  • Experience conveying complex ideas in written, verbal and presentational formats
Responsibilities
  • Recruiting, managing, and maintaining a world-class engineering team working on software networking products including VPC , LbaaS.
  • Planning and executing complex technical projects.
  • Developing efficient team processes to effectively deliver value to our customers and the business.
  • Maintain existing SLOs and SLIs for current technology stacks, as well as iteratively add new SLO and SLIs for newly deployed software and technologies
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to define roadmaps, ensure successful product and feature rollouts including requirement analysis, capture, and documentation
  • Collaborating with technical leads to the overall architecture, design, and development of core projects related to software network products
  • 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.
  • Career coaching including performance assessment, and career development.

DigitalOcean provides cloud computing services that enable developers and businesses to build, deploy, and scale applications efficiently. Its platform offers a range of fully managed services, allowing users to focus on software development rather than infrastructure management. DigitalOcean stands out from competitors by emphasizing simplicity, a strong community, and open-source support, making it accessible for startups and small to medium-sized businesses. The company's goal is to empower users to innovate and grow their businesses by providing the tools and support needed to streamline the development process.

Company Stage

IPO

Total Funding

$168.5M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2012

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

-3%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Growing demand for cloud-native tools aligns with DigitalOcean's offerings.
  • Rising adoption of hybrid cloud strategies presents integration opportunities for DigitalOcean.
  • Expansion of the global developer community enhances DigitalOcean's community-driven support.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from Vultr threatens DigitalOcean's market share.
  • Bare Metal GPUs may increase operational costs, affecting profit margins.
  • Reopening NYC2 Data Center could lead to increased overhead costs.

What makes DigitalOcean unique

  • DigitalOcean offers a no DevOps required experience for developers.
  • The company focuses on simplicity and open source to attract developers globally.
  • DigitalOcean's Bare Metal GPUs cater to demanding AI/ML workloads.

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Benefits

Remote-first

Full health coverage

Wellness coverage

Flexible vacation time

Team-building & social events

401(k) plans

ESPP

Education support

Partner support

Employee giving