Senior Deployment Engineer

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. At DigitalOcean, Senior Deployment Engineers play a critical role in building and scaling the physical infrastructure that powers our cloud platform. Our Deployment team is responsible for new data center builds, infrastructure expansions, hardware deployments, cabling validation, site readiness, and repeatable execution standards that enable DigitalOcean to grow quickly and reliably. From leading deployment workstreams to validating infrastructure readiness, driving contractor execution, troubleshooting complex blockers, and training local teams, our Senior Deployment Engineers operate across the full deployment lifecycle. You’ll join a collaborative, fast-moving team with opportunities to support large-scale deployments, new data center expansions, and next-generation infrastructure. This role requires significant onsite deployment support and requires very high levels of domestic and international travel based on project needs. What You’ll Be Doing Leading deployment workstreams for new data center builds, expansions, hardware rollouts, rack buildouts, cluster deployments, and high-density compute infrastructure Acting as a senior onsite deployment resource for build quality, infrastructure validation, cabling validation, training, and site readiness Validating vendor and contractor rack and stack work against DigitalOcean design standards, rack elevations, cabling plans, labeling requirements, and deployment procedures Verifying physical readiness, including power feeds, redundancy