Senior Software Engineer I, AI/ML

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 Senior AI/ML Engineer to own agents, copilots, and platform services end to end—and to raise the engineers around you as you do it. DigitalOcean is building the substrate for an AI-native company, and the AI Engineering team is doing that work. It spans three connected pillars: internal AI copilots and agents for teams across Finance, People, Sales, Marketing, Support, and IT; the internal AI platform that powers them—model access and routing, agent runtimes, evaluation harnesses, and the developer tooling around them; and re-architecting business processes across our enterprise systems footprint to be AI-native. Our engineers in the US and India work together across time zones, each owning delivery end to end for their business domains while contributing to the shared platform. You will join the team in India as a fully proficient engineer who takes an ambiguous-but-scoped problem from design to shipped, instrumented software with limited guidance. Building the agent is the easy part; making it reliable enough that a finance analyst trusts it on a Monday morning is the job. That means you care about evaluation as much as features, and you understand that an agent nobody can debug is an agent nobody will keep using. What You'll Do Own the design and delivery of features and small services end to end—agents, copilots, and platform components—with limited guidance. Build agentic systems properly: orchestration, tool use, retrieval, memory and state, and the evaluatio