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. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer (IC5) to join our App Platform and Functions engineering organization. App Platform is DigitalOcean’s managed PaaS: customers ship apps from source to production on Kubernetes-backed infrastructure without managing clusters themselves. Functions is our serverless compute product, running event-driven workloads on a secure, multi-tenant runtime. Together these products sit on the critical path for developers deploying and scaling contemporary applications—and increasingly AI and agent workloads—on DigitalOcean.

In this role,



you will set technical direction for major areas of App Platform and Functions—not only within your immediate team, but across adjacent platform, networking, and compute organizations. You will define architectures that span multi-year roadmaps, drive cross-org alignment on how PaaS and serverless intersect with Kubernetes, edge, security, and AI workloads, and establish the engineering standards the team builds against. If you are a seasoned engineer who wants to combine deep technical expertise with broad organizational impact, this is the role for you.

What You’ll Do

• Define Platform Architecture: Set technical direction for App Platform and Functions control planes and runtimes—designing for hyperscale multi-tenancy, regional distribution, and the evolving requirements of AI-native and enterprise customers. Your architecture decisions will span multiple teams and multi-year roadmaps.

• Lead Kubernetes Product Strategy: Ar

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 DigitalOcean
📍 Hyderabad