At DigitalOcean, we're not just simplifying cloud computing - we're revolutionizing it. We serve the developer community and the businesses they build with a relentless pursuit of simplicity. With our customers at the heart of what we do - and powered by a diverse culture that values boldness, speed, simplicity, ownership, and a growth mindset - we are committed to building truly useful products. Come swim with us!
What You'll Be Doing:
- Recruiting, managing, and maintaining a world-class engineering team working on software networking products including VPC , LbaaS.
- Planning and executing complex technical projects.
- Developing efficient team processes to effectively deliver value to our customers and the business.
- Maintain existing SLOs and SLIs for current technology stacks, as well as iteratively add new SLO and SLIs for newly deployed software and technologies
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to define roadmaps, ensure successful product and feature rollouts including requirement analysis, capture, and documentation
- Collaborating with technical leads to the overall architecture, design, and development of core projects related to software network products
- Developing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and utilizing these Key Results to measure and report on the success of the team.
- Developing processes and tools to improve team performance and quality-of-life.
- Developing processes and tools to improve product performance and quality.
- Career coaching including performance assessment, and career development.
What We'll Expect From You:
- Direct experience with managing, coaching, and mentoring software engineers - a people first attitude
- Domain expertise in Networking stack and having shipped products at scale with a strong customer focus
- Proven track record of managing and delivering projects throughout the entire SDLC, delivering products to market on schedule and ensuring feedback loops from customers work their way into development
- Experience introducing and growing a quick release development environment with short cycles
- Experience developing cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, operations, support, and product groups
- Experience with staffing, interviewing, retaining and building high performing teams
- Experience conveying complex ideas in written, verbal and presentational formats