Senior Capacity Planner — GPU Infra & Serverless (Hybrid)

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Capacity Planner to grow the Serverless Instance offering by optimizing physical infrastructure and GPU deployments. You will predict demand, establish scalable processes, and partner with cross-functional teams to align capacity with roadmap.

You will build dashboards, monitor GPU availability, and drive procurement strategies while maintaining a strong focus on cost efficiency and reliability across global data centers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in capacity planning or related technical/analytical role.
• Strong understanding of the GPU hardware market—models, vendors, availability, and performance characteristics.
• Familiarity with serverless inference workloads and spot capacity dynamics.
• Experience analyzing usage and demand data to drive resource allocation or optimization decisions.
• Strong foundation with SQL and data visualization tools (Looker, Grafana) to build reporting and models.
• Experience with automation tooling/AI agents to reduce manual analysis.
• Working knowledge of data center rack and power capacity planning concepts.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills, with experience partnering across DCOPS, Network Engineering, Product, and Delivery.
• Bonus: experience with data center inventory tools such as dcTrack or Netbox.

Responsibilities

• Analyze usage statistics across serverless inference models and spot demand to identify optimization opportunities in server assignment.
• Make and implement recommendations on GPU server allocation across models to maximize revenue and utilization.
• Build tools and processes to automate and streamline model-to-server assignment decisions, reducing manual analysis over time.
• Maintain a deep, current understanding of the GPU hardware market — new models, availability, price/performance tradeoffs — to inform procurement and deployment decisions.
• Track rack and power capacity for GPU infrastructure across global data centers.
• Partner with DCOPS, Network Engineering, Product, and Delivery teams to plan and execute physical GPU server deployments.
• Forecast future GPU demand (both inference spot capacity and physical infrastructure) to inform procurement timelines.
• Identify opportunities to redistribute or optimize existing GPU hardware placement across racks and cabinets.
• Build dashboards and reporting to track GPU utilization, spot capacity trends, and deployment status.
• Escalate capacity risks or bottlenecks before they impact GPU availability or revenue.

Skills

Capacity planning

GPU hardware market

Serverless workloads

SQL

Looker

Grafana

Automation tooling

Cross-functional collaboration

Data center rack and power

DCOPS collaboration

Tools

dcTrack

Netbox

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Capacity Planner to grow the Serverless Instance offering by optimizing physical infrastructure and GPU deployments. You will predict demand, establish scalable processes, and partner with cross-functional teams to align capacity with roadmap.

You will build dashboards, monitor GPU availability, and drive procurement strategies while maintaining a strong focus on cost efficiency and reliability across global data centers.