> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt.

# FDE jobs at DigitalOcean

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/digitalocean

2 open forward deployed engineer (FDE) jobs at DigitalOcean across 2 US metros.

Developer-friendly cloud for digital-native businesses, now bundling core cloud, GPUs, inference, data, and agent infrastructure into an AI-native platform.

Public · About 1,001–5,000 people

**2 postings** 2 metros [Careers at DigitalOcean ↗](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/embed) read Nov 6, 2026

## 2 open FDE roles at DigitalOcean

### [Staff Forward Deployed Applied Scientist (Agentic AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4078b92dfa142527)

Seattle, WA Hybrid 6mo ago

$220,000–$239,000

- [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4078b92dfa142527)

### [Staff Forward Deployed Applied Scientist (Agentic AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5cb0666417640fff)

San Francisco, CA Remote 6mo ago

$220,000–$239,000

- [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5cb0666417640fff)

Both postings are hands-on engineering in the customer’s own systems.

Compare these roles with [pay ranges at other US FDE employers](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary).

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## How DigitalOcean describes FDE work

Both postings describe production code, versus 80% of US FDE postings. Both serve external customers, versus 86% of US FDE postings. Both are read as senior or staff roles, versus 94% of US FDE postings. One allows remote work, versus 30% of US FDE postings. Both mention travel, versus 42% of US FDE postings.

Read from the current postings listed here, not from company-wide policy. [Compare with all US FDE postings and read the method →](https://nextmove.md/fde/research)

## Compare with similar employers

Employers at a similar size or stage.

### [Palantir](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/palantir)

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$140,000

70 postings

### [monday.com](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/monday-com)

New York, NY · Atlanta, GA · Denver, CO ·

$155,000

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### [Nebius](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nebius)

Remote (US) · New York, NY

$202,000

7 postings

Other FDE employers in Seattle area and SF Bay Area

- [FDE and deployment jobs in Seattle area](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=puget-sound) · 1 DigitalOcean posting · 77 companies
- [FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=sf-bay-area) · 1 DigitalOcean posting · 482 companies

Employer postings · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method)

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