Senior Director, Inference Products, Optimizations

Job Description:

• Recruit, mentor, and coach engineers
• Define and execute on the Product roadmap for DigitalOcean's Inference Products
• Lead design and evolution of inference serving stack
• Collaborate with Product Management and engineering teams
• Ensure production health and stability of all systems
• Institutionalize best practices for system and infrastructure tuning

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 6+ years in technical leadership or management role
• Deep expertise in distributed systems design
• Knowledge of modern AI/ML technologies
• Experience with Kubernetes at scale
• Understanding of cloud-native multi-region architectures
• Familiarity with GPU architectures and hardware optimization
• Strong systems engineering and security knowledge
• Expertise in defining and tracking infrastructure metrics
• Excellent communication and ownership skills

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Flexible time off policy
• Employee Assistance Program
• Local Employee Meetups
• Professional development resources and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
• LinkedIn Learning access
• Bonus potential based on performance
• Equity compensation including equity grants and Employee Stock Purchase Program