Senior Director of Engineering – Storage Products

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 looking for a visionary Senior Director of Engineering to lead and scale our Storage Products engineering organization in India. In this role, you will own the end-to-end engineering strategy and execution for DigitalOcean's storage portfolio, including Object Storage, Block Storage, File Storage, Backups, and Snapshots. You will build and lead multiple high-performing teams, shape the technical direction of our storage platform, and partner closely with senior product, design, and business leadership to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient storage services for customers around the world. What You'll Do Define and own the multi-year engineering strategy and roadmap for Storage Products in India, aligning closely with global product and infrastructure leadership. Lead, grow, and inspire a multi-team engineering organization 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. Lead sustaining engineering strategy, including technical debt reduction, platform modernization, operational efficiency improvements, and long-term storage platform health. Manage delivery accountability across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring successful preview and GA launches while proactively mitigating dependencies and execution risks. Drive platform scalability, durability, availability, and performance improvements across DigitalOcean's storage offerings. Partner closely with infrastructure teams to optimize storage economics, hardware utilization, capacity planning, and datacenter expansion strategies. Recruit, retain, and develop senior engineering talent; drive performance management, career development frameworks, and succession planning across the India organization. Represent the India engineering organization in global leadership forums and serve as the primary escalation point for storage product engineering decisions. What You'll Add to DigitalOcean Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 6+ years in senior engineering leadership or management roles, including managing managers. Demonstrated track record of 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, o…