Sr. Director of Engineering, Managed PostgreSQL and AI-Native Database Platform

Digital Ocean
Seattle
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 261,600 - 327,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Executive communication","Strategic thinking","Customer focus","Team building"]

Senior technical and organizational leader responsible for DigitalOcean’s Managed PostgreSQL, guiding strategy, architecture, reliability, and scale to support mission-critical workloads and AI-native builder ecosystems.

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Digital Ocean
Digital Ocean
2 months ago

Sr. Director of Engineering, Managed PostgreSQL and AI-Native Database Platform

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Job Summary

Senior technical and organizational leader responsible for DigitalOcean’s Managed PostgreSQL, guiding strategy, architecture, reliability, and scale to support mission-critical workloads and AI-native builder ecosystems.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own Managed PostgreSQL end-to-end: lead the organization responsible for all PostgreSQL editions, overseeing availability, scalability, security, and long-term architecture.
  • •Build hyperscaler-grade reliability and operational excellence: establish tier-0 reliability standards and execute against SLIs/SLOs for failover, backups, and query performance.
  • •Scale Advanced Edition into a production-grade platform: evolve the Advanced Edition into a differentiated offering with HA architecture, consensus-based failover, and fast restore capabilities.
  • •Serve large and demanding database customers: support workloads up to 64 TB with storage scaling, read-only nodes, and query insights.
  • •Define the AI-native PostgreSQL strategy: integrate PostgreSQL with AI workflows via pgvector, metadata stores, and agent memory.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 261,600 - 327,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of engineering experience, including significant leadership of cloud infrastructure, database, storage, distributed systems, or data platform organizations.
  • •6+ years managing managers and leading multi-team engineering organizations.
  • •Proven experience operating customer-facing, high-availability production services with strict reliability, durability, and incident-management expectations.
  • •Strong distributed systems foundation: replication, consensus, failure detection, failover, consistency, partitioning, control planes, fleet automation, and multi-tenant operations.
  • •Experience with database systems, managed database services, storage engines, query performance, backup/restore, high availability, or large-scale stateful infrastructure.
Experience:15+ yearsCloud infrastructureDatabasesAISaaSDistributed systems
Skills:LeadershipExecutive communicationStrategic thinkingCustomer focusTeam building
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PostgreSQLPgvectorDistributed systemsCloud infrastructure

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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