About the role
Join the DigitalOcean team and elevate your career while collaborating with a dynamic group of talented professionals dedicated to simplifying cloud solutions. If you possess a growth mindset, thrive on bold ideas, and enjoy the rapid pace of an industry leader, you’ll fit right in. Our culture emphasizes teamwork, learning, enjoyment, and making a significant impact for aspirational creators worldwide.
Scope and Mission:
- Lead the architecture and operation of the Gradient AI platform, ensuring an innovative and user-friendly agent development experience that prioritizes exceptional scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Champion the architectural vision and technical quality throughout backend systems and user interactions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and Build
- Design and refine the architecture for our agent development experience encompassing code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions.
- Initiate efforts to create an architecture that maximizes scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost-effectiveness.
- Oversee and enhance our benchmarking system to continually improve our platform.
- Lead the rollout of new services by actively engaging in hands-on roles as needed to ensure timely delivery.
- Technical Leadership
- Define and uphold technical standards, coding practices, tools, and infrastructure guidelines across AI/ML engineering teams.
- Formulate best practices for design, testing, deployment, instrumentation, and performance optimization.
- Mentor senior engineers, contributing to a culture of architectural integrity and operational excellence.
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to translate strategic goals into implementable technical roadmaps.
- Support customer-facing teams (e.g., consultants, support, sales engineers) in shaping AI modernization initiatives through agent technology.
- Reliability, Performance & Scaling
- Lead operational excellence initiatives for our agent development platform, establishing scalable processes and mechanisms that align with the engineering organization’s growth.

