DigitalOcean salaries
The median posted base pay for tech jobs at DigitalOcean is $188K a year, from 37 open jobs with posted pay. The middle half of the jobs is from $167K to $226K. The median posted range is $175K to $215K. The median at DigitalOcean is 1% below the median of all companies ($190K).
- Median posted base pay
- $188K
- Middle half of the jobs
- $167K to $226K
- 10th to 90th percentile
- $145K to $281K
- Open jobs with posted pay
- 37
DigitalOcean pay by level
Posted base pay at DigitalOcean, by the level in the job title. A level needs 3 or more jobs with posted pay.
- Senior19 jobs$174K$158K to $188K
- Staff9 jobs$215K$210K to $215K
- Principal5 jobs$281K$259K to $281K
| Level | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $145K | $158K | $174K | $188K | $218K | 19 |
| Staff | $195K | $210K | $215K | $215K | $219K | 9 |
| Principal | $251K | $259K | $281K | $281K | $281K | 5 |
DigitalOcean pay by job type
The median for each job type at DigitalOcean, compared with the median of all companies for the same job type. A job type needs 3 or more jobs with posted pay. One job can have more than one job type.
| Job type | Median at DigitalOcean | Middle half | Median of all companies | Difference | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inference & ML systems | $226K | $198K to $281K | $225K | +1% | 13 |
| Infra, platform & SRE | $188K | $174K to $216K | $192K | −2% | 10 |
| ML / AI engineering | $230K | $215K to $281K | $215K | +7% | 9 |
| Software engineering | $188K | $181K to $211K | $190K | −1% | 4 |
| Product management | $210K | $199K to $219K | $200K | +5% | 4 |
| Solutions engineering | $149K | $125K to $172K | $180K | −17% | 4 |
| Security engineering | $158K | $158K to $236K | $193K | −18% | 3 |
Open jobs at DigitalOcean with posted pay
These are the 20 jobs with the highest posted pay, from 37 open jobs with posted pay. Each range is the base pay that DigitalOcean posted.
- VP, Security & Platform Services$279K to $349K
- Director of Research, Agentic AI$250K to $312K
- Principal Engineer, Inference Memory and Storage Systems$250K to $312K
- Principal Engineer, Model Optimizations$250K to $312K
- Principal Engineer, Rack-Scale GPU Architecture$250K to $312K
- Principal Engineer, AI/ML Security$230K to $288K
- Principal Product Manager, Agentic AI Infrastructure$218K to $273K
- Senior Engineering Manager, Kernel and Virt$201K to $251K
- Senior Manager of Engineering, Compute$201K to $251K
- Staff Product Designer, Console Experience$193K to $241K
- Senior Manager, Agentic Analytics Platform Engineering$192K to $240K
- Staff Forward Deployed Applied Scientist (Agentic AI)$220K to $239K
- Staff Engineer, Inference Optimizations$191K to $239K
- Staff Engineer, Network Infrastructure$191K to $239K
- Staff Engineer, Serverless Inference$191K to $239K
- Senior Staff Product Manager, Security Products$186K to $233K
- Staff Product Manager$186K to $233K
- Staff Product Security Engineer, Secure Design (Kernel and Virtualization)$180K to $215K
- Senior Solutions Architect II, AI/ML$150K to $215K
- Senior Software Engineer II, Managed Databases$167K to $209K
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How we compute these numbers
We read each job from the job board of the company and check it every day. We use only open jobs that state a yearly pay range in US dollars. One job counts with the middle point of its posted range. The median is the middle value of these amounts: half of the jobs are above it and half are below it.
We do not use a range with a bottom below $15,000, a top above $1,000,000, or a top that is more than four times the bottom. A company needs 5 or more open jobs with posted pay to have a page. Jobs under the same company name count as one company.
The numbers are base pay as the company posted it. They are not the pay of a person, and they do not include stock, a bonus or benefits. For the stock and the bonus that people reported, see Reported pay.