Manager of Engineering, DigitalOcean
Datastores & Messaging
$164.3-240k
Cloud computing services for developers
Job no longer available
Cloud computing services for developers
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$164.3-240k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify cloud computing so developers and businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
Role
Who you are
- We are excited to meet candidates who share our passions for technology solutions, healthy services, and being loving service providers, team members, and leaders
- Experience building software used by 1000s of users
- Integrate regular customer feedback into software development practices, and leverage customer feedback to drive features with a focus on always delivering value to DigitalOcean customers
- Awareness and authentic interest in learning in areas such as Golang gRPC principles, infrastructure operations, large language models
- 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
- Efficiently manage the team to deliver value for users and the business
- Identify issues impeding software development (across all phases of a service lifecycle from conception to maintenance) and collaborate with the team to resolve and improve
- A commitment to delivering scalable reliable systems
- Systems thinking
- Strong opinions, weakly held
What the job involves
- DigitalOcean is welcoming a new technical engineering manager to support our engineers, grow our culture, and lead the team developing our managed database product offering
- This person will be responsible for guiding the development of a mixed-skill engineering team, facilitating communications, providing clarity of vision and priority, and empowering the team to create creative solutions for our DigitalOcean customers
- Lead a team of back-end software engineers developing gRPC APIs and operating infrastructure for our managed database offering (MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka Redis, OpenSearch) 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
- Technologies we use: Kubernetes, Go, gRPC, Kafka, SQL, MongoDB, Grafana, and Prometheus
Our take
DigitalOcean offers computer network and storage capabilities that enable its users to quickly set up online businesses. Straightforward tools and attractive pricing have attracted hundreds of thousands of customers in the last decade, including pop superstar Beyoncé, who hosted a new album release on the company’s servers during its early years.
DigitalOcean has a strong customer base, but must continue to improve to stay relevant in such an extremely competitive space. The company battles with rivals such as Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Azure and Google's Cloud Platform, which are the undisputed leaders in the cloud computing market. Wisely, DigitalOcean avoids direct confrontation with these giants by focusing more on small businesses and startups and providing more savings opportunities for its users.
The company has boasted clients such as GitLab, Slack and HashiCorp amongst its impressive lists of customers. Additionally, the company has acquired Cloudways in a move to further simplify workflows for its clients that are looking to scale their digital businesses, it opened a new data center in Sydney, and expects to see a revenue rise between 9% and 12% over 2024.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2020
$50m
SERIES C
Jul 2015
$83m
SERIES B
Total funding: $173.2m
Company benefits
- Full health coverage
- Flexible vacation time
- An annual company offsite, Shark Week
- Monthly gym and internet reimbursement
- Parental leave with transition time built-in
- Formalized mentorship, LinkedIn Learning tracks, and other internal programs
- Work from home opportunities
- 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match
Company HQ
South Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Yancey Spruill
(CEO, not founder)Previously served as CFO and COO for SendGrid and as CFO for both TwentyEighty and DigitalGlobe.
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