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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 16 days DigitalOcean's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 68% of DigitalOcean's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at DigitalOcean
- high 101 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
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from DigitalOcean's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for DigitalOcean.
About this role
As a Senior Capacity Planner at DigitalOcean, you will be responsible for building and maintaining programs that manage internal physical infrastructure, ensuring reliable and predictable provisioning of bare metal servers. You will collaborate with internal teams to forecast capacity needs, design playbooks for Cloud Operations, coordinate budget requests, and track hardware capacity across data centers. Your role will also involve using observability data to validate capacity assumptions and streamline infrastructure requests for internal customers.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
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
- 5+ years of experience in capacity planning, infrastructure operations, or program/project management in a technical environment
- Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience working with bare metal or physical server infrastructure
- Solid understanding of containerized workloads (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals as they relate to infrastructure deployment
- Experience using observability tools (metrics, logging, monitoring)
Nice to have
- Experience as a consultant or technical project manager driving nebulous projects to completion
- Experience with data center inventory tools such as dcTrack or Netbox
What you get
- Competitive salary range of $106,000 - $132,000
- Bonus eligibility based on company and individual performance
- Equity compensation including grants upon hire and participation in Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
- Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
- Flexible time off policy
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work options beyond hybrid
- Salary range provided, but no details on bonus structure or equity specifics
- The role involves significant cross-functional collaboration, which may require strong interpersonal skills
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Listed by DigitalOcean on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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