DigitalOcean
Senior Product Security Engineer, Secure Design
DigitalOcean, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Senior Product Security Engineer, Secure Design
We’re looking for a Senior Product Security Engineer who is passionate about partnering with engineers to assess the security risk of new products and features. As a member of the Secure Design team, you will report to the Senior Manager of Product Security. Our Secure Design team enables DigitalOcean to build secure‑by‑design products. We leverage strong relationships with both product teams and the rest of security engineering to be successful. Our scope is primarily focused on reviewing early‑stage decisions, helping develop threat models, scaling impact via automation, curating security patterns, authoring security guidance, training, and championing security initiatives.
You will collaborate with other security teams and the rest of DigitalOcean to guide secure architecture design, reduce security risk in the organization, and empower engineers to make informed security decisions. Security at DO means solving incredibly complex problems at a high‑scale that have real impact for our customers, our products, and the larger internet community.
What You’ll Do
Threat model application designs and solutions and provide security risk assessments (70%). Provide deep technical expertise in software and network architecture during holistic assessments of security layers across infrastructure, application, people, and process.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to threat model and architect secure and resilient systems. Identify the trade‑offs of different solutions and recommend the efficient design to achieve both functional goals and security requirements. Provide hands‑on remediation guidance to development teams.
Champion an internal security culture (developer training, internal CTFs, etc.). Mentor software engineering teams in security best practices. Help oversee our vulnerability management program (security debt). Help DigitalOcean engineers understand how security events impact them.
Build security tooling and automations to help scale the Product Security team's practices (10%). Use software architecture and coding patterns to reduce the impact of security issues. Drive architecture, patterns, and processes across engineering that make security the easiest path. Integrate custom security tooling into engineering workflows.
Required Qualifications
Experience leading architectural changes or complex cross‑team efforts to mitigate security vulnerabilities.
Ability to clearly communicate security topics and vulnerability classes (e.g., OWASP Top Ten) and provide actionable direction to product teams.
A record of partnering with internal engineering teams to tackle security problems across an entire stack with empathy and creativity.
Working knowledge of modern development concepts (virtualized environments, containerization, continuous integration + delivery).
Preferred Qualifications
3+ years experience guiding software teams on secure architecture design.
Experience building or reviewing threat models and ability to craft malicious user, attacker, and abuse/misuse cases.
Working knowledge of hardware and software supply chain security.
Familiarity with object‑oriented and functional programming concepts, particularly with languages such as Go, JavaScript, Rust, or C.
Compensation Range
$161,000 - $220,000
This is a remote role.
Benefits
We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting‑edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career and work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning’s 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth.
We care about your well‑being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from employee assistance programs to flexible time off.
We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus and equity compensation.
DigitalOcean is an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
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You will collaborate with other security teams and the rest of DigitalOcean to guide secure architecture design, reduce security risk in the organization, and empower engineers to make informed security decisions. Security at DO means solving incredibly complex problems at a high‑scale that have real impact for our customers, our products, and the larger internet community.
What You’ll Do
Threat model application designs and solutions and provide security risk assessments (70%). Provide deep technical expertise in software and network architecture during holistic assessments of security layers across infrastructure, application, people, and process.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to threat model and architect secure and resilient systems. Identify the trade‑offs of different solutions and recommend the efficient design to achieve both functional goals and security requirements. Provide hands‑on remediation guidance to development teams.
Champion an internal security culture (developer training, internal CTFs, etc.). Mentor software engineering teams in security best practices. Help oversee our vulnerability management program (security debt). Help DigitalOcean engineers understand how security events impact them.
Build security tooling and automations to help scale the Product Security team's practices (10%). Use software architecture and coding patterns to reduce the impact of security issues. Drive architecture, patterns, and processes across engineering that make security the easiest path. Integrate custom security tooling into engineering workflows.
Required Qualifications
Experience leading architectural changes or complex cross‑team efforts to mitigate security vulnerabilities.
Ability to clearly communicate security topics and vulnerability classes (e.g., OWASP Top Ten) and provide actionable direction to product teams.
A record of partnering with internal engineering teams to tackle security problems across an entire stack with empathy and creativity.
Working knowledge of modern development concepts (virtualized environments, containerization, continuous integration + delivery).
Preferred Qualifications
3+ years experience guiding software teams on secure architecture design.
Experience building or reviewing threat models and ability to craft malicious user, attacker, and abuse/misuse cases.
Working knowledge of hardware and software supply chain security.
Familiarity with object‑oriented and functional programming concepts, particularly with languages such as Go, JavaScript, Rust, or C.
Compensation Range
$161,000 - $220,000
This is a remote role.
Benefits
We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting‑edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career and work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning’s 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth.
We care about your well‑being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from employee assistance programs to flexible time off.
We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus and equity compensation.
DigitalOcean is an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
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