Senior Director, Engineering - Serverless Compute Engineering

Digital Ocean
Bengaluru
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Hospitality & Food ServiceSkills: ["Leadership","Cross-functional collaboration","Strategic planning","Operational excellence","Customer obsession"]

Own the strategy and end-to-end execution of a next-generation serverless platform, including Serverless Functions, App Platform, and serverless observability. Lead engineering roadmap delivery, improve developer experience, performance, reliability, and operational excellence as workloads grow. Partner cross-functionally across Product, Design, Compute, Networking, AI, Database, and Customer Success while leading a large, distributed engineering organization focused on quality, availability, and customer obsession.

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Senior Director, Engineering - Serverless Compute Engineering

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Job Summary

Own the strategy and end-to-end execution of a next-generation serverless platform, including Serverless Functions, App Platform, and serverless observability. Lead engineering roadmap delivery, improve developer experience, performance, reliability, and operational excellence as workloads grow. Partner cross-functionally across Product, Design, Compute, Networking, AI, Database, and Customer Success while leading a large, distributed engineering organization focused on quality, availability, and customer obsession.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Hospitality & Food Service
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and own the multi-year engineering strategy and execution roadmap for serverless functions, app platform, and observability.
  • •Lead the evolution of the managed application platform to simplify deployment, accelerate developer productivity, and support modern cloud-native and AI-native architectures.
  • •Define and deliver the next-generation serverless functions for scalable, event-driven workloads with improved performance, reliability, and developer experience.
  • •Lead the evolution of the serverless observability platform, delivering richer telemetry, monitoring, diagnostics, and operational insights.
  • •Lead the engineering organization and partner cross-functionally to prioritize investments, accelerate platform adoption, and maintain operational excellence as the platform scales.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Employee AssistanceLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive experience building and operating large-scale cloud platforms, PaaS offerings, and serverless platforms.
  • •Deep understanding of developer platforms, deployment systems, observability, cloud-native technologies, and production operational challenges.
  • •Proven ability to define long-term product strategy and translate business goals into engineering execution delivering scalable platform capabilities.
  • •Experience leading large, geographically distributed engineering organizations while maintaining reliability, operational excellence, engineering velocity, and customer experience.
Experience:Cloud platformsPaaSServerlessCloud-nativeObservabilityAI-nativeDeveloper platforms
Skills:LeadershipCross-functional collaborationStrategic planningOperational excellenceCustomer obsession
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ServerlessServerless functionsApplication platformObservabilityTelemetryMonitoringDiagnosticsCloud-nativeAI-nativePaaS

Company Brief

Digital Ocean
Provides cloud infrastructure and developer-focused cloud services including scalable droplets, managed databases, Kubernetes, object storage, and networking to simplify deploying and managing applications for developers and small-to-medium businesses.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2011
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