Principal Software Engineer

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. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

Requirements

• Architect and guide the implementation of high-scale, reliable, and secure systems that underpin our PaaS offerings.
• Drive technical direction and make foundational decisions on system design, scalability, observability, and developer experience.
• Partner with product managers and engineering leadership to define short- and long-term roadmap priorities.
• Identify platform bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and future risks—and design solutions that proactively address them.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure seamless integration between platform services, infrastructure, and developer tools.
• Mentor engineers at all levels and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, inclusivity, and impact.
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies, patterns, and best practices in the PaaS, serverless, and cloud-native ecosystem.

Benefits

• Competitive array of benefits to support employees from Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few.
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support continued growth and development.
• Bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance.
• Equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.