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How DigitalOcean hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
23 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

DigitalOcean scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 42 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 23 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 36 · green card filings: 2

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Overview

DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider that offers virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, databases, storage and GPU compute for developers, startups and small and medium-sized businesses. It also provides an AI platform for inference and agents. Founded in 2012 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the company is headquartered in New York City, United States.

News

News keith.is 27 days ago
Leaving DigitalOcean, one site at a time
DigitalOcean is giving $3 million to the foundation behind DHH
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News keith.is 27 days ago
DigitalOcean has $3 million for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks
A week and a bit on UpCloud, deleting my DigitalOcean account after more than 10 years, and what DigitalOcean is doing to CSS-Tricks, one of the best places on the whole internet.
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News Mailfully 28 days ago
Getting Outbound Email to Work on DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean drops outbound SMTP on ports 25, 465 and 587. Amazon SES also listens on 2587 and 2465, so one config change gets a droplet sending again.
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News Omarchy 1 month ago
DigitalOcean joins as a Founding Corporate Patron with $3 million - Omarchy News
DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1 million a year for three years! That's a $3 million commitment to the development, maintenance, and spread of Omarchy. What…
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News The Motley Fool 2 months ago
DigitalOcean CEO Srinivasan Sells 5,697 Shares for $736,000
Stock surged 336% over the past year, and the CEO retains a stake worth $106 million after this sale.
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News digitalocean.com 2 months ago
AI Disruptors: How the Next Generation of Business is Being Built DigitalOcean
The founders from Andi AI, Higgsfield AI, LawVo, and Probably share what it takes to build in the agentic era: reliability, human oversight, and solving problems that actually matter.
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News digitalocean.com 2 months ago
LLM Inference Benchmarking - Measure What Matters DigitalOcean
As inference hardware costs remain high, squeezing maximum performance to improve unit economics is a primary objective for AI teams. This article focuses on the LLM performance domain and analyzes the interplay between latency, throughput, concurrency, a
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News webbynode.com 3 months ago
Webbynode - Real VPS Performance Data
Same VPS plan. Same region. Results don't always match. 300+ repeated benchmarks across regions - measured over time, not single runs.
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News webbynode.com 4 months ago
Webbynode - Real VPS Performance Data
Same VPS plan. Same region. Results don't always match. 300+ repeated benchmarks across regions - measured over time, not single runs.
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News digitalocean.com 4 months ago
What We Learned Hiring 33 Engineers in Two Weeks DigitalOcean
Learn how we replaced the standard interview loop with a three-hour build session and made offers within 24 hours.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at DigitalOcean over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
201
Postings analysed
199
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python29%
SQL17%
Go16%
JavaScript10%
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA5%
LangChain5%
CrewAI4%
LangGraph4%
Databases
MySQL12%
PostgreSQL10%
Snowflake5%
Redis4%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes36%
Linux22%
Apache Kafka12%
AWS11%
AI & ML
LLM13%
Claude2%
DeepSeek1%
GPT-41%
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Full DigitalOcean tech stack 201 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$192k
Typical range
$62k – $349k
Open positions
140
137 Jobs
Junior 0.7%
Middle 5.1%
Senior 58.4%
Staff 21.2%
Principal 8%
Architect 6.6%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $174k $174k
Middle 7 $209k $134k – $209k
Senior 80 $174k $101k – $280k
Staff 29 $239k $150k – $280k
Principal 11 $288k $197k – $312k
Architect 9 $239k $186k – $349k
Highest paying role VP, Security & Platform Services $349k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at DigitalOcean By role, level and city, against the market · 140 jobs with pay

People

Yancey Spruill
Executive Officer, Director
Alan Shapiro
Executive Officer
Matthew Norman
Executive Officer
William Sorenson
Executive Officer
Jeffrey Guy
Executive Officer
Barry Cooks
Executive Officer
Carly Brantz
Executive Officer
Pueo Keffer
Director
Brad Gillespie
Director
Ben Uretsky
Director
Amy Butte
Director
Peter Levine
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
67/100
Growing
Open positions
184
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
24 days
faster than 48% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
29% ▼
DevOps
10% ▲
AI/ML
8% ▲
Marketing
7% ▼
Industrial Engineering
7% ▲
Finance
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Backend (+34 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added GCP to stack Oct 2026
Added Heroku to stack Oct 2026
Added Google Cloud Run to stack Oct 2026
Added Fly.io to stack Oct 2026
Added AWS Lambda to stack Oct 2026
Added AWS Fargate to stack Oct 2026
Added SQL to stack Oct 2026
Added Snowflake to stack Oct 2026
Added Looker to stack Oct 2026
Added Google BigQuery to stack Oct 2026
Added dbt to stack Oct 2026
Added BigQuery to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
16
Hiring now
14
Countries
5
Busiest office
New York
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New York United States
HQ
New York Metro
1 open roles 100% remote 1-10 est. staff $186k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
seen since Apr 2026 careers board, job postings
Seattle United States
Engineering / R&D
DigitalOcean Seattle Office
81 open roles 68 posted in 90 days 47% engineering 41% remote 10-50 est. staff $214k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, DevOps, Product
seen since Jan 2026 careers board, job postings
Denver United States
Remote hub
DigitalOcean Seattle Office
34 open roles 34 posted in 90 days 38% engineering 91% remote 10-50 est. staff $196k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Management, Industrial Engineering
seen since Jun 2026 careers board, job postings
San Francisco United States
Remote hub
DigitalOcean Seattle Office
32 open roles 27 posted in 90 days 28% engineering 91% remote 10-50 est. staff $195k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Marketing, Sales
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Boston United States
Remote hub
All Other Locations
32 open roles 26 posted in 90 days 56% engineering 91% remote 10-50 est. staff $211k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Security
seen since Feb 2026 careers board, job postings
Austin United States
Remote hub
All Other Locations
27 open roles 24 posted in 90 days 26% engineering 93% remote 10-50 est. staff $186k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Backend, Product
seen since Jan 2026 careers board, job postings
Bengaluru India
Engineering / R&D
Bangalore Metro
24 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 71% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend, Security, Leadership
seen since Apr 2026 careers board, job postings
Hyderabad Pakistan
Support & operations
DigitalOcean Hyderabad Office
10 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps, Support
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Karachi Pakistan
Regional office
Karachi Metro
5 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps, Support
seen since Sep 2026 careers board, job postings
Atlanta United States
Regional office
DigitalOcean Seattle Office
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 1-10 est. staff $175k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Leadership
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Memphis United States
DigitalOcean Seattle Office
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Kansas City United States
All Other Locations
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Singapore Singapore
Regional office
Singapore
1 open roles 100% remote 1-10 est. staff
hires for Solutions
seen since Jul 2026 careers board, job postings
Richmond United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
seen since Oct 2026
Dubai United Arab Emirates
Regional office
Dubai
careers board
Los Angeles United States
Regional office
Los Angeles Metro
careers board

Jobs

$220k – $239k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 8+ years exp • Master's Degree • Seattle
Python
FastAPI
Asyncio
Pydantic
AI/ML
LangGraph
AutoGen
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
VLM
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Structured Outputs
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
Machine Learning
DevOps
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$220k – $239k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp • Master's Degree • San Francisco
Python
FastAPI
Asyncio
Pydantic
AI/ML
LangGraph
AutoGen
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
VLM
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Structured Outputs
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
Machine Learning
DevOps
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$167k – $209k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 6+ years exp • Master's Degree • Seattle
Python
FastAPI
Asyncio
Pydantic
AI/ML
LangGraph
AutoGen
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
VLM
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Structured Outputs
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
Machine Learning
DevOps
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$167k – $209k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 6+ years exp • Master's Degree • Denver
Python
FastAPI
Asyncio
Pydantic
AI/ML
LangGraph
AutoGen
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
VLM
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Structured Outputs
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
Machine Learning
DevOps
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$167k – $209k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 6+ years exp • Master's Degree • Boston
Python
FastAPI
Asyncio
Pydantic
AI/ML
LangGraph
AutoGen
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
VLM
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Structured Outputs
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
Machine Learning
DevOps
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$167k – $209k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 6+ years exp • Master's Degree • Austin
Python
FastAPI
Asyncio
Pydantic
AI/ML
LangGraph
AutoGen
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
VLM
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Structured Outputs
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
Machine Learning
DevOps
DigitalOcean
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$167k – $209k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 6+ years exp • Master's Degree • San Francisco
Python
FastAPI
Asyncio
Pydantic
AI/ML
LangGraph
AutoGen
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
VLM
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Structured Outputs
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
Machine Learning
DevOps
DigitalOcean
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$193k – $241k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Boston • Seattle
DigitalOcean
Kubernetes
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$193k – $241k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Austin • Seattle
DigitalOcean
Kubernetes
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$193k – $241k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • San Francisco • Seattle
DigitalOcean
Kubernetes
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$193k – $241k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Denver • Seattle
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Kubernetes
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$167k – $209k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 8+ years exp • Seattle
MySQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
DigitalOcean
Linux
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