Staff Software Engineer - Agent Platform

DigitalOcean•Austin, TX

1d•$260,000 - $300,000•Remote

About The Position

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world. We want people who are passionate about taking complex concepts and providing a simple and accessible experience for users. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to build features and improvements end to end to make accelerated compute simple and accessible for everyone. The Gradient Platform team is responsible for creating tools so that developers can easily create AI Agents for real world problems. We’re a fast-pace team looking to build the next generation of AI/ML workflows on DigitalOcean.

Requirements

Experience in driving technical projects in a fast pace environment
Experience driving operational excellence in mission-critical cloud environment
Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for a team
Strong interest in development platforms, Data Engineering, MLOps, AI, CI/CD, infrastructure or making products for technical teams
Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs
5+ years relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high growth tech environment building UI component libraries, design systems, and tools using TypeScript
Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
Knowledge of API standards including REST or GraphQL

Responsibilities

Lead technical and technology projects across many teams and pillars
Head up operational excellence for the group ensure SLAs/SLOs are met
Support driving technology/engineering standards and strategy for the group
Own a technical area by providing technical leadership for multiple teams
Drive large cross-functional projects independently to completion
Work primarily in Typescript, React, GraphQL, Python, and Go
Build UI components, libraries, tools, and services that power platform
Maintain and develop the Go and GraphQL API
Collaborate on design and UX
Participate and support in operational excellence
Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy
Collaborate with other engineers to find elegant architectures and solutions

Benefits

We prioritize career development.
At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career.
You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry.
We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big.
Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing.
We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
We care about your well-being.
Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few.
While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
We reward our employees.
The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills.
You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance.
We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.