Staff Software Engineer at Digitalocean

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

This isn't just another engineering role—this is a career-defining opportunity to join a core product engineering team and shape the future of DigitalOcean's infrastructure from our strategic hub in Hyderabad, India. The Cloud Portability team is on a mission to make our simple one-click deployment experience run on any hardware, anywhere—from our own bare metal to any of the cloud providers.

You'll be a foundational member of our growing Hyderabad engineering team, with a global mandate to re-architect critical IaaS components for a multi-cloud world. This is a high-exposure role where you will work directly with and influence our most senior Principal Engineers globally. If you're a builder with a founder's mindset who has experience at cloud-scale and wants to solve vast, complex problems with global impact, this role is for you.

What You’ll Do:

Architect and Build: Own the technical vision and execution to make DO’s shared services run seamlessly on heterogeneous hardware and cloud environments.
Solve Deep Technical Challenges: Dive into the internals of our stack, optimizing for scale, performance, and software efficiency across different underlying platforms.
Influence and Collaborate: Work across the organization with our top Principal Engineers globally, influencing technical direction and driving consensus on complex architectural decisions.
Own the Outcome: Embody a founder's mindset. You'll own an idea, navigate the ambiguity, figure out the path forward, build, learn, and ultimately deliver value to our customers.
Bridge the Gap: Bring a customer-centric perspective to our product, finding innovative ways to bridge feature gaps between our platform and hyperscalers by leveraging portability and our core differentiators.

Key Metrics:

Global Impact: You will own a product area with a global charter, making decisions that impact customers and infrastructure around the world, right from Hyderabad.
High-Exposure: Collaborate daily with some of the most brilliant minds in the company, gaining unparalleled experience in cloud infrastructure.
Build from the Ground Up: Be a key part of building DigitalOcean's strategic engineering presence in India, with direct ownership of a product critical to our global success.

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

Deep experience in building, operating, or consuming cloud products at major tech companies or hyperscalers. You've worked on large-scale distributed systems and understand the trade-offs required.
Strong fundamentals in computer science, including distributed systems, networking, and algorithms.
Proficiency in languages like Go or Python. Experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus.
A "builder" mentality. This role would be ideal for anyone who has expansive experience working in cloud services including DevOps with a strong computer science background who is eager to return to hands-on product development.
The ability to navigate ambiguity, own a problem end-to-end, and make pragmatic trade-offs to get things done.
Proven ability to influence senior technical leaders and drive complex projects forward in a fast-moving, global environment

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean

We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You 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 equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.