Manager, Infrastructure Engineering

We want people who are passionate about creating products that you and your peers would love. 

We are looking for a highly skilled people manager that is capable of optimizing team performance by investing in and coaching individual team members and fostering an environment where engineers can thrive.

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Infrastructure Engineering this role will manage and grow one of the five teams that is responsible for developing highly available, secure, and scalable cloud foundations that enable millions of developers throughout the world to build, deploy and scale the next generation of applications.

Our Team:  The Infrastructure Engineering group is a diverse team made up of nearly sixty, mostly senior, engineers located across the US, Canada, and Europe with the mission of creating simple, yet powerful, foundations (with 💕) from which our community can build.

• Talent development and performance management; coaching, and developing a culture of inclusivity and collaboration 
• Partner with senior technical and business leadership to co-develop multi-year roadmaps for the technology areas across the organization 
• Proactively identify and solve challenges that negatively impact team velocity and successful delivery
• Develop annual team operating budget and maintain contracts that support your areas of responsibility 
• Strategic planning, quarterly business reviews and building relevant metrics for key insights

• People First Leader - serve the team by continuously assessing their strength and passions helping them to grow and develop. Provide them with the opportunities and visibility to be their best and help them achieve their goals
• Visionary - experience communicating effectively with peers and leaders, create allies and productive relationships, nurture collaboration and knowledge transfer, communicate with transparency, communicate clear organizational goals
• Technologist - a proven background in some or all of: platform development, OS and server life cycle management, storage and virtualization technologies
• At least 4 years of progressive experience in cloud computing, virtualized platform development, storage platform development, Operating System development, or hardware design
• 3+ years’ experience of people, talent and performance management; passion to mentor, motivate, and coach team members

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is between $148,000-$185,000 based on relevant years of experience and skills. This may vary for candidates outside the US. Employees may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees including grants of equity upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging our teams and employees to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs. We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your well-being. In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a competitive array of benefits. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal-opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

*This is a remote role

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