Engineering Manager

DigitalOcean; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Bonus potential

Job summary

Dublin-like placeholder text not allowed; actual company DigitalOcean in Bengaluru invites an experienced Engineering Manager to guide a mixed-skill backend team and shape the technical vision for scalable cloud features. You will mentor engineers, drive delivery, and collaborate with product, UX, and customer-facing teams to simplify developer experiences.

The role emphasizes leadership, setting OKRs, and coaching career growth while partnering across the organization to build the next

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 4+ years in a senior leadership/management role.
• Proven track record delivering complex cloud-scale distributed systems, especially customer-facing.
• Experience leading back-end engineers building gRPC APIs and observability infra.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a mixed-skill engineering team and guide vision, priority, and delivery.
• Define roadmaps with product and engineering to build new developer features.
• Coach performance, provide career development, and conduct performance reviews.
• Collaborate with UI/UX, customer success, marketing, and engineering teams.
• Develop and track OKRs to measure team success and impact.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Go/Java

Distributed systems

Cloud-scale systems

Team coaching

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Go

Java

Distributed systems

Job description

Job Description:

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.

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 customer and platform engineering product offerings. 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 teams mission is to simplify the customer and developer experience so they 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 Do:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4+ years in a senior leadership or management role.
• Proven track record of delivering complex cloud-scale distributed systems, particularly in customer experience.
• Lead a team of back-end software engineers developing gRPC APIs and operating infrastructure for our observability (metrics, logging, alerting) solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills within a global organizational structure.
• 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: Go/Java, Distributed systems

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• 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.

*This job is located in Bengaluru, India

JR: 2026-8182

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 Learnings 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.

Application Limit:You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.