Manager, Infrastructure Engineering
Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?
Based in New York and Cambridge, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing for every developer. We are working on solving some of the most challenging and interesting technology projects around, on a scale unmatched by few companies.
We want people who are passionate about solving complex systems, storage, big data, and network problems using automation and software defined solutions.
We are looking for a manager to help the Infrastructure team solve complex hardware problems using intelligent software. A perfect candidate is someone who has a passion for helping engineers so that they never have to run a manual process twice. The team is building automation and systems management tools that make it easier to scale our rapidly growing business and deliver cloud infrastructure all around the world. You’ll also work on improving DigitalOcean’s overall platform performance and reliability.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Defining, driving, and prioritizing work among a team of system engineers and program management
- Recruiting, managing, and providing career growth opportunities for your engineering team
- Monitoring and reviewing each engineer's progress related to development goals and KPIs
- Building standard processes and methods for accepting and delivering work products, always iterating to improve
- Drive communication across the organization to ensure alignment and awareness with projects you would be delivering
What We'll Expect From You:
- Top notch collaboration and communication skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and follow-up
- Strong fundamental knowledge of Linux
- Familiarity with automation, development, and infrastructure concepts
- Technical familiarity with datacenter concepts, service-oriented architectures, and other Internet services and protocols typically cared for by SRE / DevOps / Infrastructure teams
- Ability to properly track, report, and execute several projects in parallel
- Experience with a remote culture / managing distributed teams a plus
- Prior technical management in an infrastructure/operations environment a plus
Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:
- We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
- We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
- We care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
- We invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- We want you to love where you work. We have great office spaces located in the heart of SoHo NYC and Cambridge, and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to take an all-expense-paid trip to our office to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in office.
- 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.