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Scope and Mission

Drive the design and operation of DigitalOcean's storage platform (block, object, and file/NFS), focusing on delivering durable, high-performance storage with best-in-class scale, performance, and predictability.
Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across distributed storage systems, from the data plane to customer-facing APIs and experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Architect and Build

Design, develop, and ship storage capabilities across block, object, and file systems, spanning data placement, replication, snapshots, and observability.
Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for durability, scalability, low latency, high throughput, and cost efficiency.
Advance the storage platform with meaningful improvements to developer experience, infrastructure resilience, and platform capability.
Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery.

Technical Leadership

Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the storage engineering teams.
Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning.
Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team's culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.

Cross-functional Collaboration

Work with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical roadmaps for storage.
Partner with compute, networking, and platform teams (e.g., Droplets, Kubernetes, MicroVMs), and guide customer-facing teams (e.g., support, solutions engineers) on storage architecture and best practices.

Reliability, Performance & Scaling

Lead Operational Excellence for the storage platform; establish mechanisms and processes that scale to the engineering organization while continuously raising the bar.
Oversee availability, durability, performance tuning, failover strategies, capacity planning, data migration, and disaster recovery.
Drive automation (e.g., IaC, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring, fleet management) to optimize operations.

Innovation & Future Roadmapping

Champion the continuous improvement of the storage platform, identifying and executing on opportunities to make it faster, more durable, and more cost-efficient.
Serve as a subject matter expert on emerging storage technologies and paradigms (e.g., NVMe, distributed file systems, tiered storage) and lead their productization.
Build additional storage capabilities to support a broader range of workloads across DigitalOcean, including AI/ML and stateful compute.

Qualifications

Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and operating production-grade distributed storage systems (block, object, or file/NFS) at cloud scale.
Technical Experience: 8+ years designing and building applications on the cloud, with 4+ years in storage or distributed systems (e.g., Ceph, replication, consistency, and data durability).
Leadership & Collaboration: Prior experience as a technical visionary in large-scale, mission-critical projects; ability to align technology strategy with business impact.
Operational Excellence: Expertise in driving operational excellence via automation and best practices.
Communication & Mentoring: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring senior and junior engineers; translating complex concepts across engineering and business teams.

*This job is located in Bengaluru, India

JR: 2026-8378

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