DigitalOcean · 6 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer (Gradient AI)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$227K/yr - $284K/yr
10+ years expDigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company focused on simplifying cloud and AI for builders. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive the design and operation of the Gradient AI platform, ensuring a simple and innovative agent development experience while leading technical excellence across the engineering teams.
Cloud ComputingDevOpsSaaSVirtualizationWeb Hosting
Responsibilities
Design and evolve the architecture for our agent development experience including code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions
Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency
Manage and evolve our benchmarking system to continuously raise the bar on our experience
Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery
Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the AI/ML engineering teams
Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning
Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team’s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence
Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps
Guide customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) to shape AI modernization initiatives via agents
Lead Operations Excellence for our Agent development platform, establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while raising the bar
Oversee availability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, and disaster recovery
Drive AI-driven automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring) to optimize operations
Drive development of internal tooling leveraging agents across the company, contributing towards increased efficiency and quality across all aspects of engineering
Serve as subject matter expert on new agent development paradigms and lead implementation of mechanisms to productize them
Qualification
Required
Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade AI/ML platforms using the latest GenAI and Agent-development technologies
10+ years in designing and building applications on the cloud with 5+ years experience in AI/ML platforms
Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact
Expertise in driving operational excellence via automation and best practices
Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams
Benefits
Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
Employee Assistance Program
Local Employee Meetups
Flexible time off policy
Bonus in addition to base salary
Equity compensation to eligible employees
Equity grants upon hire
Option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program
Company
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean provides a cloud platform to deploy, manage, and scale applications of any size.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.92BKey Investors
Global Secure InvestAccess IndustriesKeyBanc Capital Markets
2025-08-12Post Ipo Debt· $625M
2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $800M
2021-09-13Post Ipo Equity· $34.91M
Leadership Team
Paddy Srinivasan
Chief Executive Officer
Larry D'Angelo
Chief Revenue Officer
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