Full-Time

Engineering Manager

Insights

Posted on 9/30/2024

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

1,001-5,000 employees

Cloud computing platform for developers

Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software

Compensation Overview

$164.3k - $240kAnnually

+ Bonus + Equity Compensation

Senior

San Francisco, CA, USA

This is a remote role.

Category
Engineering Management
Software Development Management
Required Skills
gRPC
Go
Requirements
  • Experience building software used by 1000s of users.
  • Awareness and authentic interest in learning in areas such as Golang gRPC principles, infrastructure operations, large language models.
  • A commitment to delivering scalable reliable systems.
  • Systems thinking.
  • Strong opinions, weakly held.
Responsibilities
  • Lead a team of back-end software engineers developing gRPC APIs and operating infrastructure for our observability (metrics, logging, alerting) solutions.
  • Develop efficient team methods to adroitly delivery value to our customers.
  • Collaborate across the organization and consistently interface with UI, UX, customer success, marketing, and engineering teams.
  • Develop Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and utilize these Key Results to measure and report on the success of the team.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define roadmaps to build the next generation of products for our developer community.
  • Review and give input on architectural system designs.
  • Pair with leads on delivery of features, and resolutions of defects.
  • Career coaching including performance assessment, and career development.
  • Collaborate directly with customers to learn more about their jobs to be done and how DigitalOcean can better serve them.
  • Escalation path for the product on-call rotation, and drive improvements post incidents.

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

8%

1 year growth

14%

2 year growth

29%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Partnership with Hugging Face simplifies AI model deployment for developers.
  • Scalable storage for Managed MongoDB offers flexibility in cloud storage solutions.
  • Reopening of NYC2 Data Center supports AI/ML businesses with new GPUs.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from Vultr with a matching $3.5 billion valuation.
  • Potential over-reliance on Ceph for storage solutions poses risks.
  • Operational costs may rise with the introduction of Bare Metal GPUs.

What makes DigitalOcean unique

  • DigitalOcean offers a no DevOps required experience for developers.
  • The company is a Silver member of the Ceph Foundation, supporting open source storage.
  • 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

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