Senior Software Engineer II, 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 lead-capable AI/ML Engineer to take complex AI systems from design to production, and to anchor the technical quality of our engineering team in India. 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 be the senior-most engineer on the team in India—owning critical systems, leading multi-person workstreams, and working with our architect to set the technical bar. This is a leadership role without direct reports: your influence comes from the quality of your designs, the decisions you make when the answer is genuinely unclear, and the engineers who get better because of you. It is also the role closest to the business. You will sit with the people whose work an agent is about to change, understand what they actually do, and design something that earns their trust. Agents that touch systems of record are unforgiving of vague requirements, and translating an amb