Manager of Engineering, Datastores & Messaging

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.

We want people who are passionate about building features that you and your peers will love.

DigitalOcean is welcoming a new technical engineering manager to support our engineers, grow our culture, and lead the team developing our managed database product offering. This person will be responsible for guiding the development of a mixed-skill engineering team, facilitating communications, providing clarity of vision and priority, and empowering the team to create creative solutions for our DigitalOcean customers. 

The DBaaS team’s mission is to simplify the database experience so DO customers can focus on building and operating their applications to Get Growing.

We are excited to meet candidates who share our passions for technology solutions, healthy services, and being loving service providers, team members, and leaders. 

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead a team of back-end software engineers developing gRPC APIs and operating infrastructure for our managed database offering (MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka Redis, OpenSearch) solutions.
• Develop efficient team methods to adroitly delivery value to our customers.
• Collaborate across the organization and consistently interface with UI, UX, customer success, marketing, and engineering teams.
• Develop Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and utilize these Key Results to measure and report on the success of the team.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define roadmaps to build the next generation of products for our developer community.
• Review and give input on architectural system designs.
• Pair with leads on delivery of features, and resolutions of defects.
• Career coaching including performance assessment, and career development.
• Collaborate directly with customers to learn more about their jobs to be done and how DigitalOcean can better serve them.
• Escalation path for the product on-call rotation, and drive improvements post incidents. 
• Technologies we use: Kubernetes, Go, gRPC, Kafka, SQL, MongoDB, Grafana, and Prometheus.

What We'll Expect From You:

• Experience building software used by 1000s of users.
• Integrate regular customer feedback into software development practices, and leverage customer feedback to drive features with a focus on always delivering value to DigitalOcean customers.
• Awareness and authentic interest in learning in areas such as Golang gRPC principles, infrastructure operations, large language models.
• Regularly give feedback to team members on wins, and areas to improve.
• Lead a team where individuals enjoy coming to work, know what needs to be done, and have the resources to get their job done.
• Efficiently manage the team to deliver value for users and the business.
• Identify issues impeding software development (across all phases of a service lifecycle from conception to maintenance) and collaborate with the team to resolve and improve.
• A commitment to delivering scalable reliable systems.
• Systems thinking.
• Strong opinions, weakly held.

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We are proud to work here. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud computing 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 t