Datacenter Cooling Engineering Lead

DigitalOcean; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean's Memphis team seeks a hands-on Datacenter Cooling Engineer to design, deploy, and monitor next-generation cooling infrastructure for high-density data centers, with a focus on scalable solutions and strong cross-team collaboration.

You will lead cooling topics as SME, oversee power as secondary SME, and work with vendors to select liquid cooling and CDU strategies. This is an onsite role in Memphis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering field
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating cooling infrastructure at scale
• Deep understanding of thermal management in mission critical environments

Responsibilities

• Act as primary SME for all cooling-related engineering topics at DigitalOcean
• Act as secondary SME for all power-related engineering topics at DigitalOcean
• Evangelize cooling technologies throughout the Infra organization and company
• Develop and maintain standards and practices for DigitalOcean datacenter facilities
• Inform facility design requirements with best practices for both air and liquid cooling
• Liaise with colocation facility engineering teams regarding mechanical system designs
• Liaise with vendor hardware engineering teams regarding hardware solution designs
• Lead selection of liquid cooling systems during the hardware design, ensuring designs can scale with us
• Develop cooling monitoring tooling and systems to aggregate thermal monitoring information and provide alerting capabilities
• Coordinate with operations on monitoring thresholds, failure modes and alerting
• Assist in troubleshooting cause of failures and work to prevent them in the future
• Work closely with Infra teams such as DC Operations and Machine Design to ensure facility readiness for next-generation solutions

Skills

Cooling systems at scale

Thermal management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS Mechanical Engineering or related

Job description

DigitalOcean's Memphis team seeks a hands-on Datacenter Cooling Engineer to design, deploy, and monitor next-generation cooling infrastructure for high-density data centers, with a focus on scalable solutions and strong cross-team collaboration.

You will lead cooling topics as SME, oversee power as secondary SME, and work with vendors to select liquid cooling and CDU strategies. This is an onsite role in Memphis.