Director of Engineering, Managed Database Service
Hybrid · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Director of Engineering for DigitalOcean's Managed Database service. Lead the engineering organization responsible for developing and operating a customer-facing cloud database service at scale, including availability, performance, durability, security, observability, fleet operations, and roadmap execution. Own end-to-end charter, design cloud-scale production systems, establish reliable control planes and deployment workflows, drive high-judgment reliability decisions, define and monitor SLIs/SLOs, and foster an execution culture that ships meaningful customer value quickly while maintaining service reliability. Build and mentor a high-talent engineering organization, partner with Product, SRE, Infrastructure, Support, Security, and GTM, and articulate a multi-quarter strategy with clear ownership, accountability, and customer impact. Preference for experience with managed databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.), cloud database platforms, replication, backup/restore, failover, read replicas, and self-healing infrastructure. The role emphasizes leadership, reliability, customer outcomes, and rapid, disciplined delivery within a Bengaluru-based, hybrid-work arrangement.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years engineering experience including leadership of cloud infrastructure, database, storage, distributed systems, or large-scale platform organizations
- 4+ years managing engineering teams including managers or senior technical leads
- Proven experience developing and operating customer-facing cloud services at scale
- Strong understanding of relational database systems and production database workloads
- Experience running high-availability production services with reliability, durability, security, and incident response
- Strong operational judgment across monitoring, alerting, incident management, change management, deployment safety, capacity planning, and fleet health
- High judgment in technical and operational decision-making, especially where service reliability, customer impact, and engineering velocity are in tension
- Ability to define a multi-quarter engineering strategy and translate it into shipped customer value
- Demonstrated ability to hire, grow, and retain strong engineering talent
- Strong cross-functional leadership with Product, SRE, Infrastructure, Support, Security, and GTM partners
- Clear executive communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs, risks, priorities, and customer impact
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