Staff AI Architect

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 an Architect who will own the technical shape of how DigitalOcean operates as an AI-native business — the agentic systems our teams build, and the enterprise architecture they plug into. DigitalOcean is building the substrate for an AI-native company, and this role owns its architecture. The ambition: any team—Finance, People, Sales, Marketing, Support, IT, Engineering—can put a governed agent into a real business workflow in hours or days, on rails that make the safe path the fast path. Credentials and access owned by the platform. Every agent operating under an identity that can be audited. Quality held to evaluation evidence as models and prompts change. Cost per workflow understood before it is committed. Orchestration and observability built once and shared. Getting there is an architecture problem, and it is yours. Reporting to the Sr. Director of AI & Business Technology Engineering and partnering with the Manager, AI Engineering—who owns people and roadmap while you own technical direction—you will own the architecture end to end: how agents are built and run, how they reach models and enterprise systems, how long-running work is orchestrated, and how identity, audit, and observability run through all of it. You set the technical bar across our distributed team in the US and India. The role is deliberately hybrid, and we mean all three parts. You are a software architect who sets the standard for how we build; an AI architect who has shipped agentic systems t