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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 82 days DigitalOcean's roles stay open a median of 83 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 68% of DigitalOcean's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at DigitalOcean
- high 151 stale, 1 reposted of 151 open
- Hiring momentum
- 197 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-25
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About this role
The Director of Engineering for Managed Database Services at DigitalOcean will lead the development and operation of a cloud database service, ensuring high reliability, performance, and security for customer applications. This role involves making critical technical and operational decisions, managing a team, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to enhance service delivery and customer experience. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and relational databases, focusing on building a high-performing engineering organization.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of DigitalOcean as an employer.
What you need
- 12+ years of engineering experience, including leadership of cloud infrastructure, database, storage, distributed systems, or large-scale platform organizations
- 4+ years managing engineering teams, including managers or senior technical leads
- Proven experience developing and operating customer-facing cloud services at scale
- Strong understanding of relational database systems and production database workloads
- Experience running high-availability production services with strong expectations for reliability, durability, security, and incident response
- Strong operational judgment across monitoring, alerting, incident management, change management, deployment safety, capacity planning, and fleet health
Nice to have
- Experience building or operating managed database services such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis/Valkey, Kafka, OpenSearch, or similar systems
- Deep experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL in production environments
- Experience with cloud database platforms such as Amazon RDS/Aurora, Google Cloud SQL/AlloyDB, Azure Database, PlanetScale, Neon, Crunchy, Percona, EDB, or similar services
- Experience with replication, failover, backup and restore, read replicas, query performance, storage scaling, connection management, online upgrades, and database maintenance workflows
- Experience building control planes, automation systems, fleet management systems, or self-healing infrastructure for large-scale cloud services
What you get
- Flexible time off
- Local team meetups
- Mental health and well-being support
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
- Eligible employees may receive equity compensation, including a new hire equity grant and participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Participation in DigitalOcean’s annual bonus plan for non-sales roles
Worth weighing
- No specific salary range provided, only that it is based on market data and experience
- Role involves high judgment decisions that could impact service reliability and customer experience
- Fast-paced environment may require quick decision-making under pressure
Summarised from DigitalOcean's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by DigitalOcean on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-25. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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