Senior Director, Engineering - Serverless Compute Engineering

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At DigitalOcean, we believe deploying and operating applications in the cloud should be simple. Customers shouldn't have to become infrastructure experts to build reliable, scalable applications. As we enter the era of Agentic AI, we're looking for a visionary leader to own the evolution of DigitalOcean's Serverless Compute. Services like our managed application platform, serverless platform, and serverless observability services—delivering the simple developer experience our customers love while providing the reliability, scalability, and operational visibility they need as they grow. This is a rare opportunity to define and drive the strategy for the platform that enables millions of developers and AI-native businesses to build, deploy, operate, and monitor applications with confidence.

As the Senior Director, Serverless Compute Engineering, this leader will define and own the strategy and execution of DigitalOcean's ServerlessCompute services, including application platform and serverless observability capabilities. This role will be responsible for making DigitalOcean the simplest place for developers to build, deploy, operate, and observe modern cloud-native and AI-native applications while driving operational excellence as we scale.

We are looking for a strategic technical leader to define, own, and lead the end-to-end execution and operational excellence of our next-generation serverless application platform. Reporting to the VP of Core Cloud Compute and Networking, you will define the long-term strategy for our serverless products, including App Platform, Functions, and Serverless Observability while delivering a world-class developer experience for deploying, operating, and monitoring modern applications.

• Strategic Roadmap & Execution: Define and own the multi-year engineering strategy and execution roadmap for Serverless Functions, App Platform, and Observability, enabling customers to build, deploy, and operate applications with minimal operational overhead.

• Application Platform & Developer Experience: Lead the evolution of DigitalOcean's managed application platform to simplify application deployment, accelerate developer productivity, and support modern cloud-native and AI-native application architectures.

• Serverless Platform: Define and deliver the next generation of DigitalOcean Functions, enabling scalable, event-driven serverless workloads with improved performance, reliability, and developer experience.

• Serverless Observability Platform & Operational Excellence: Lead the evolution of DigitalOcean's serverless observability platform, delivering richer telemetry, monitoring, diagnostics, and operational insights while driving world-class operational excellence, availability, and reliability across the platform.

• Platform Scalability & Reliability: Drive the long-term architectural strategy to ensure the application platform scales efficiently, remains highly resilient, and supports the growing demands of AI-native applications and enterprise workloads.

• Customer & Business Growth: Execute platform initiatives that improve customer adoption, developer productivity, customer retention, and business growth