Manager, Software Engineering

Boston, MA, United States

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’re looking for people that build and support teams to make a large impact

The Paperspace team is responsible for creating tools so that developers can easily create and deploy models for AI experiences. We currently manage the following products: Notebooks, Workflows, and Model Deployments. We’re a fast-pace team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on top of DigitalOcean’s cloud.

We’re looking for a highly motivated, hands-on technical engineering manager to support our engineers and drive an engineering culture to build. This person will be responsible for facilitating career development, aligning engineers' work to their goals and company goals, and providing coaching so people can grow.

What You’ll Be Working On:

Recruiting, managing, and maintaining a world-class remote engineering team

Planning and executing complex technical projects

Collaborating with technical leads and contributing to the overall architecture, design, and development of storage projects

Managing software project schedules using various life cycle approaches

Developing processes and tools to improve team performance and quality-of-life

Developing processes and tools to improve product performance and quality

Working with the product team to ensure successful product and feature rollouts from requirements analysis through implementation and long-term operations

Collaborating with cross functional teams in infrastructure, operations, support, core services and systems engineering to design idiomatic, sustainable solutions

Supporting the goals and developing growth opportunities for team members

Facilitating transparent, constructive communication between team members

Providing coaching and counseling via mentoring, one-on-one meetings, etc

Organizing regular performance appraisals

Planning and executing relevant training for the engineering team

What We’ll Expect From You:

Experience managing, coaching, and mentoring software engineers

Strong interest and experience in development platforms, MLOps, CI/CD, infrastructure or making products for technical teams

Experience with system, API, infrastructure design using cloud concepts such as storage volumes, private networks, load balancers, virtual machines

Experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building and scaling internal platforms using Javascript, Typescript, or Go

Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs

Experience shipping products at scale and on-time, with a focus on the customer

Experience managing and delivering projects throughout the entire SDLC

Experience developing cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, operations, support, and product groups

Experience with end-to-end quality best practices and their implementation

Experience with staffing, interviewing, building, and retaining teams

Experience conveying complex ideas in written, verbal and presentational formats

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean :

We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is between $170,000.00 - $210,000.00 based on relevant years of experience and skills. Employees 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 grants of equity upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging our teams and employees to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs. We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.

We care about your well-being. In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a competitive array of benefits. In the United States, these include health insurance, flexible vacation, retirement benefits, a generous parental leave program, and additional resources to support employees' overall well-being. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.

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.

*This is a remote role

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