DigitalOcean · 1 month ago
Senior Engineering Manager, Copilots
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$164K/yr - $205K/yrDigitalOcean is a leading cloud infrastructure company seeking a highly motivated and skilled Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Copilots Engineering team. This role involves developing and maintaining AI solutions, ensuring smooth operations, and driving efficiency through automation while collaborating with various teams to enhance product experiences.
Cloud ComputingDevOpsSaaSVirtualizationWeb Hosting
Responsibilities
Lead a team of software engineers developing gRPC APIs, building AI agents, creating a platform for other DigitalOcean engineers to build agents, and operating production services
Develop efficient team methods to adroitly delivery value to our customers
Collaborate across the organization and consistently interface with UI, UX, customer success, marketing, and engineering teams
Develop Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and utilize these Key Results to measure and report on the success of the team
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define roadmaps to build the next generation of products for DigitalOcean’s customers
Review and give input on architectural system designs
Pair with leads on delivery of features, and resolutions of defects
Career coaching including performance assessment, and career development
Collaborate directly with customers to learn more about their jobs to be done and how DigitalOcean can better serve them
Escalation path for the product on-call rotation, and drive improvements post incidents
Qualification
Required
Experience building software used by 1000s of users
Integrate regular customer feedback into software development practices, and leverage customer feedback to drive features with a focus on always delivering value to DigitalOcean customers
Awareness and authentic interest in learning in areas such as Golang gRPC principles, infrastructure operations, large language models, and agentic solutions
Regularly give feedback to team members on wins, and areas to improve
Lead a team where individuals enjoy coming to work, know what needs to be done, and have the resources to get their job done
Efficiently manage the team to deliver value for users and the business
Identify issues impeding software development (across all phases of a service lifecycle from conception to maintenance) and collaborate with the team to resolve and improve
A commitment to delivering scalable reliable systems
Systems thinking
Strong opinions, weakly held
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.
Founded in 2012
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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