SeniorDirectorofEngineering,ManagedMySQL

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. DigitalOcean is building a next-generation cloud for AI-native developers and businesses. Managed MySQL is a foundational service in that ecosystem: it powers production applications, SaaS platforms, commerce systems, metadata stores, identity systems, application backends, and increasingly the transactional state layer for AI-native applications. We are looking for a senior engineering leader to own DigitalOcean’s Managed MySQL service and engineering charter end-to-end. This leader will be responsible for the current Managed MySQL offering while raising the bar for reliability, performance, scale, durability, observability, security, and operational excellence. This is also a strategic product and architecture role. MySQL remains one of the most widely adopted operational databases for developers and digital businesses. As AI-native applications emerge, MySQL will continue to serve as the system of record for user state, application state, billing data, customer metadata, product data, permissions, workflow state, and high-throughput transactional workloads. The right leader will shape the architecture and technology strategy required to evolve Managed MySQL from a reliable managed database into a differentiated, AI-ready operational database platform. The ideal candidate will combine strong product judgment, deep technical expertise in distributed systems and databases, and the rigorous operational standards required for managing mission-critical data services. The mandate is simple