Senior Manager, Physical Infrastructure Engineering

The role

You will lead a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for standards, specifications, and technical decisions for data center infrastructure. You will own engineering standards for AI/GPU data centers and serve as the technical authority for infrastructure issues.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary team covering electrical, mechanical, controls/automation, and data center infrastructure engineering and construction.
• Develop and own engineering standards and specifications for AI/GPU data centers.
• Serve as the technical authority and final engineering escalation point for infrastructure issues.
• Provide engineering due diligence on new colocation and build-to-suit facilities.
• Own vendor and OEM infrastructure engineering relationships.
• Lead or sponsor root-cause analysis for infrastructure-driven incidents.
• Own infrastructure specifications, technical documentation, and change governance.
• Partner with Site Operations, Deployment, Construction, and Design organizations.
• Track and report on infrastructure reliability metrics across the fleet.
• Lead compliance review of infrastructure standards against relevant codes and safety requirements.

Required qualifications

• BS in Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, or related Engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years in mission-critical engineering, including direct experience with data center infrastructure.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams, including hiring, developing, and retaining senior technical talent.
• 5+ years experience managing outsourced engineering teams.
• Deep hands-on experience with liquid cooling systems (chillers, heat exchangers, pumps, CDUs, secondary loop design, leak detection and mitigation), UPS, generators, switchgear, and controls/automatio
• Experience running or directly supporting root-cause analysis with OEMs on infrastructure component failures.
• Working knowledge of relevant electrical, mechanical, and safety codes (NFPA 70E, local electrical code).
• Experience conducting technical due diligence on data center facilities (colocation or build-to-suit) prior to lease or construction commitment.
• Track record of building engineering standards that scale across multiple sites.

Benefits

• Annual bonus plan
• New hire equity grant
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
• Flexible time off
• Local team meetups
• Mental health and well being support

Before you apply

• You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period.

About the company

DigitalOcean is a high-growth technology company that builds scalable cloud and AI infrastructure. They value a growth mindset and a bias for action.