Senior Technical Recruiter II

DigitalOcean; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Equity compensation

Bonus potential

Professional development

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to partner with engineering and leadership to drive strategic hiring across AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, and platform safety. You will manage high‑volume yet highly technical pipelines, shape sourcing programs, and guide executive stakeholders through market realities and offer discussions.

You'll operate as a trusted advisor, align talent strategies to product roadmaps, and build scalable processes using Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, and AI

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-lifecycle technical recruiting experience in high-growth environments.
• Proven track record of managing high-impact technical hiring pipelines and influencing senior leadership.
• Experience designing and executing targeted talent programs or sourcing campaigns from scratch.
• Advanced proficiency with modern recruiting tech stacks (Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, AI sourcing tools, market intelligence engines).

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic advisor to engineering and executive leadership, programmatically driving talent initiatives across complex technical ecosystems.
• Manage high-impact technical pipelines from intake to offer structuring and closing.
• Influence hiring managers through market realities, compensation insights, and candidate dynamics.

Skills

Executive alignment

End-to-end search orchestration

Stakeholder management

Technical recruiting across SaaS/cloud

Tools

Greenhouse

LinkedIn Recruiter

AI sourcing tools

Market intelligence engines

Google Workspace

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.

DigitalOcean is on a mission to simplify cloud computing so builders, developers, and AI-native enterprises can change the world. To support our next phase of global expansion and platform evolution, we are looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter—a tech-savvy, program-minded talent partner who combines elite full-lifecycle execution with robust project management, consultative influence, and deep domain fluency.

In this role, you will do far more than fill requisitions: you will operate as a strategic advisor to engineering and executive leadership, programmatically driving talent initiatives across complex technical ecosystems (Cloud, Infrastructure, AI/Inference, and Platform Safety).

What You'll Do

1. Strategic Business Partnership & Executive Alignment

• Operate as a Consultative Talent Advisor: Partner directly with VPs, Engineering Directors, and HRBPs to map talent strategies directly to product roadmaps, business OKRs, and workforce planning goals.
• End-to-End Search Orchestration: Manage high-impact, mission-critical technical pipelines (averaging 15+ active complex requisitions) from initial intake/kickoff and market alignment to offer structuring and executive closing.
• Stakeholder Management: Influence, guide, and calibrate hiring managers through market reality, compensation insights, and candidate selection dynamics.

2. Technical Sourcing, Talent Branding & Community Building

• Deep Domain Fluency: Speak the language of modern engineering teams. Confidently engage top-tier talent across AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, containerization, customer identity, and enterprise software platforms.
• Multi-Channel Talent Programmatic Sourcing: Leverage advanced AI sourcing tools, GitHub, StackOverflow, open-source communities, and targeted networking to surface and engage passive, highly specialized engineering talent.

3. Recruiting Operations, Data & Intelligence

• Data-Driven Program Management: Treat your hiring funnel like a managed pipeline. Track, analyze, and communicate hiring metrics, conversion rates, and SLA risks to leadership to continuously optimize process velocity.
• Market & Competitive Intelligence: Track real-time labor market trends, tech stack shifts, local global compliance/legislation, and compensation movements to advise leaders on competitive positioning.
• Process Modernization & Scale: Identify operational friction in the candidate loop, proposing and executing workflow improvements across our ATS (Greenhouse), talent tech stack, and interviewer calibration programs.

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean

• Relationship & Communication Mastery: Exceptional interpersonal presence, executive communication skills, and high emotional intelligence. Proven ability to build immediate trust with VP-level stakeholders and navigate complex candidate negotiations.
• Programmatic & Organizational Rigor: Strong project management discipline—able to balance multiple high-volume hiring initiatives, cross-functional dependencies, and candidate workflows without losing speed or quality.
• Tech-Savvy Expertise: A genuine curiosity and working knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and AI development workflows (e.g., K8s, Go, Python, agent frameworks, microservices).
• Closing & Structuring Agility: Deep understanding of modern compensation structures (base, variable bonus, equity/RSUs), executive offer negotiations, and relevant global mobility/immigration nuances.

Experience & Competencies

• 8+ years of full-lifecycle technical recruiting experience in high-growth, fast-paced SaaS, Cloud, Infrastructure, or hyper-scale environments.
• Proven track record of managing high-impact technical hiring pipelines while influencing senior engineering leadership (up to VP/SVP).
• Demonstrated experience designing and executing targeted talent programs or sourcing campaigns from scratch.
• Advanced proficiency across modern recruiting tech stacks (Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, AI sourcing tools, market intelligence engines, Google Workspace).

Compensation Range

• $110,000 - $150,000
• This is a remote role

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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 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 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.