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Director, AI Engineering

Director, AI Engineering

DigitalOceanOmaha, NE, United States
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Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. We serve the developer community and the businesses they build with a relentless pursuit of simplicity. With our customers at the heart of what we do—and powered by a diverse culture that values boldness, speed, simplicity, ownership, and a growth mindset—we are committed to building truly useful products.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Lead the development of tools and systems that help customers seamlessly migrate to DigitalOcean’s cloud platform.
  • Define the engineering roadmap for the migration experience, balancing short-term needs with long-term platform goals.
  • Partner cross-functionally with support, customer success, and product teams to understand customer challenges and prioritize the right solutions.
  • Own team health and delivery—creating clarity around goals, fostering psychological safety, and setting high technical standards.
  • Establish and track success metrics to ensure engineering efforts are delivering measurable customer and business value.
  • Champion operational excellence, scalable architecture, and a developer-first mindset.

What We’ll Expect From You

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience. 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
  • A proven track record of delivering complex backend or infrastructure products, ideally related to migrations or cloud services.
  • Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and systems design.
  • Ability to balance engineering trade-offs with customer and business impact.
  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, low-ego leadership style.
  • Experience building and growing high-performing, diverse engineering teams.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

    • Why You’ll Like Working For DigitalOcean

  • We innovate with purpose. You’ll be 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.
  • We prioritize career development. You’ll do the best work of your career, work with some of the smartest people in the industry, and have access to resources for growth.
  • We care about your well-being. We offer a competitive array of benefits, including Employee Assistance, flexible time off, and local meetups where applicable.
  • We reward our employees. Salary range : $230,400 - $345,600, with potential bonuses and equity compensation; eligibility for their Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on various bases.
  • This is a remote role.

    • Seniority level

  • Director

    • Employment type

  • Full-time

    • Job function

  • Engineering and Information Technology
  • Industries : Internet Publishing

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