# Senior Director of Engineering - Storage Products > Weekday AI · Bengaluru, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-16 **Salary:** INR 13,000,000–25,000,000 **Workplace:** on_site **Department:** Weekday's Client via platform ## Description **This role is for one of the Weekday's clients** **Salary range: Rs 13000000 - Rs 25000000 (ie INR 130-250 LPA)** Min Experience: 15+ years Location: Bengaluru JobType: full-time We are looking for a visionary Senior Director of Engineering to lead and scale our Storage Products engineering organization in India. In this role, you will own the end-to-end engineering strategy and execution for DigitalOcean's storage portfolio, including Object Storage, Block Storage, File Storage, Backups, and Snapshots. You will build and lead multiple high-performing teams, shape the technical direction of our storage platform, and partner closely with senior product, design, and business leadership to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient storage services for customers around the world. ## Requirements ### **What You'll Do** - Define and own the multi-year engineering strategy and roadmap for Storage Products in India, aligning closely with global product and infrastructure leadership. - Lead, grow, and inspire a multi-team engineering organization spanning Object Storage, Block Storage, File Storage, Backup and Snapshot services, storage infrastructure, and platform engineering. - Partner with VP-level and C-suite stakeholders across Product, Infrastructure, Finance, and GTM teams to translate business priorities into executable technical plans. - Drive organizational design, headcount planning, and talent strategy to scale the India engineering function in support of DigitalOcean's storage growth objectives. - Establish engineering excellence across teams, including coding standards, architectural reviews, incident management, operational readiness, reliability engineering, and service health benchmarks. - Champion a culture of customer obsession, operational excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement across the full software development lifecycle. - Lead sustaining engineering strategy, including technical debt reduction, platform modernization, operational efficiency improvements, and long-term storage platform health. - Manage delivery accountability across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring successful preview and GA launches while proactively mitigating dependencies and execution risks. - Drive platform scalability, durability, availability, and performance improvements across DigitalOcean's storage offerings. - Partner closely with infrastructure teams to optimize storage economics, hardware utilization, capacity planning, and datacenter expansion strategies. - Recruit, retain, and develop senior engineering talent; drive performance management, career development frameworks, and succession planning across the India organization. - Represent the India engineering organization in global leadership forums and serve as the primary escalation point for storage product engineering decisions. ### **What You'll Add to DigitalOcean** - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. - 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 6+ years in senior engineering leadership or management roles, including managing managers. - Demonstrated track record of building and scaling engineering organizations (50+ engineers) delivering cloud-scale storage platforms, distributed systems, or infrastructure products. - Deep expertise in distributed storage systems, including object storage, block storage, file systems, data durability, replication, consistency models, and disaster recovery architectures. - Proven ability to influence and align senior cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Infrastructure, Finance, and Operations in a global organizational structure. - 8+ years of experience building storage, infrastructure, cloud platform, or data management products. - Deep understanding of distributed systems at scale, including consensus protocols, replication, partitioning, fault tolerance, durability, and consistency tradeoffs. - Experience operating large-scale storage platforms supporting multi-petabyte environments and billions of customer transactions. - Deep Kubernetes expertise running stateful workloads and cloud-native storage services at scale. - Experience building and operating highly available services with stringent durability, recovery point objective (RPO), and recovery time objective (RTO) requirements. - Strong understanding of storage performance optimization, capacity management, observability, and operational excellence. - Exceptional communication skills, executive presence, and the ability to operate effectively across time zones in a globally distributed company. - Track record of operating with high ownership and bias for action in fast-paced, ambiguous environments. ### **Nice to Have** - Experience architecting and operating large-scale distributed storage systems such as Ceph, MinIO, OpenZFS, Lustre, GlusterFS, or similar technologies. - Experience with object storage systems compatible with Amazon S3 APIs. - Experience building backup, snapshot, disaster recovery, archival, or data protection solutions. - Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure workloads and storage requirements, including high-throughput file systems, data lakes, and GPU-accelerated environments. - Contributions to open-source storage, infrastructure, or cloud-native projects. - Experience leading engineering organizations through hypergrowth or significant organizational transformation. ### Good-to-have skills storage, Software Engineering, distributed sytems ## Apply [Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/CB95383AFE/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)