Senior Director of Engineering – Storage Products

📋 Description

• Define and own the multi-year engineering strategy and roadmap for Storage Products in India, aligning with global leadership.
• Lead, grow, and inspire a multi-team org spanning Object Storage, Block Storage, File Storage, Backup and Snapshot services, storage infrastructure, and platform engineering.
• Partner with VP-level and C-suite stakeholders across Product, Infrastructure, Finance, and GTM teams to translate business priorities into executable technical plans.
• Drive organizational design, headcount planning, and talent strategy to scale the India engineering function in support of DigitalOcean's storage growth objectives.
• Establish engineering excellence across teams, including coding standards, architectural reviews, incident management, operational readiness, reliability engineering, and service health benchmarks.
• Champion a culture of customer obsession, operational excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement across the full software development lifecycle.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 6+ years in senior engineering leadership or management roles, including managing managers.
• Proven track record building and scaling engineering organizations (50+ engineers) delivering cloud-scale storage platforms, distributed systems, or infrastructure products.
• Deep expertise in distributed storage systems, including object storage, block storage, file systems, data durability, replication, consistency models, and disaster recovery architectures.
• Proven ability to influence and align senior cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Infrastructure, Finance, and Operations in a global organizational structure.
• 8+ years of experience building storage, infrastructure, cloud platform, or data management products.

🎁 Benefits

• Career development resources and conference reimbursements.
• Well-being programs, Employee Assistance Program, local meetups, and flexible time off.
• Competitive compensation, bonus, equity, and Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Opportunities to work with leading cloud storage tech at a fast-growing company.
• DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer.