Sr. Director, Engineering

Significant experience managing software development teams and shipping software-based products or services. Experience with building and leading teams with an emphasis on scaling them. Direct experience building scalable infrastructure software and/or distributed systems. Strong analytic and quantitative analysis skills. Strong communications skills. Sound business judgment. A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. A good systems thinker. Enough architecture and engineering chops to hold your teams to high standards. A good cross functional collaborator. An effective communicator in written and spoken forms. A leader comfortable with build, buy, partner decisions.

Work in partnership with Product Management, Design, and other core product directors. Optimize Compute fleet performance and efficiency at scale. Define and execute the next generation of high performance Compute products. Develop quarterly goals and objectives. Make prioritization decisions and tradeoffs. Attract, develop, and retain people. Coach and develop managers and technical leaders. Command the economics tied to the organization. Participate in budget processes and make strategic decisions. Communicate openly within DigitalOcean. Drive company initiatives.