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About the Role

Join DigitalOcean's Hardware Engineering team as a Principal Infrastructure Architect to design and own the forward-looking roadmap for CPU, GPU, Storage, and Infrastructure hardware platforms. Collaborate with Infrastructure and Networking teams to evolve datacenter and networking roadmaps, building the simplest scalable cloud for dreamers and builders.

Responsibilities

• Define and own hardware architectures for next-generation compute environments (CPU, GPU, Storage, Infrastructure Server SKU products), navigating technology shifts, networking topologies, and AI/ML requirements.
• Serve as the primary technical stakeholder for infrastructure technologies, partnering with SMEs in Product and Hardware Engineering.
• Provide leadership and guidance in the hardware selection and qualification process.
• Evangelize emerging technical concepts to senior leadership to inform product and business strategies.
• Architect end-to-end server designs with vendors and partner teams to support diverse CPU, GPU, and other emerging workloads.
• Architect end-to-end storage topologies with vendor teams to support diverse workloads across performance, capacity, and archival tiers.
• Lead proof-of-concept (PoC) initiatives for emerging infrastructure technologies and transition successful pilots into global deployment standards.
• Mentor engineers at all levels and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, inclusivity, and impact.
• Represent DigitalOcean in the broader community by attending conferences, contributing to papers, and giving presentations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in server architecture, storage architecture, infrastructure engineering, or a related field, with a track record of owning and deploying designs at scale.
• Deep expertise in server and storage hardware platforms, with strong working knowledge of compute technologies from commodity CPU servers to rack scale GPU and xPU platforms.
• Working experience driving AI/ML hardware roadmaps and translating evolving silicon, accelerator, memory, and storage trends into future-proofed platform designs.
• Knowledge of emerging and non-traditional hardware approaches such as CXL memory pooling, DPUs/SmartNICs, disaggregated storage, and computational storage.
• Demonstrated ability to lead proof-of-concept initiatives and scale successful pilots into global deployment standards.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, partnering with technical and business teams, along with external vendors and partners.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, including mentoring engineers and representing the company externally at conferences and through technical papers.

Skills

• Server architecture
• Storage architecture
• Infrastructure engineering
• Compute technologies
• CPU platforms
• GPU platforms
• xPU platforms
• AI/ML hardware roadmap development
• CXL memory pooling
• DPUs/SmartNICs
• Disaggregated storage
• Computational storage
• Proof-of-concept (PoC) leadership
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Communication
• Leadership
• Mentoring

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time
• Remote

Experience Level

• 10+ years of experience

Salary/Compensations

• $184,000 - $231,000

Benefits

• Competitive benefits array
• Employee Assistance Program
• Local Employee Meetups
• Flexible time off policy
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
• Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
• Bonus opportunities based on company and individual performance
• Equity compensation, including grants upon hire
• Employee Stock Purchase Program option

About the Company

• DigitalOcean builds the simplest scalable cloud.
• A cutting-edge technology company simplifying cloud and AI so builders can create world-changing software.
• Values a growth mindset, thinking big and bold, and winning together while learning and having fun.
• Fosters a high-performance organization that challenges employees to think big.
• Employees are

Equal Opportunity

• DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.