Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
As a member of the Secure Design team, you will report to the Manager of Secure Design. 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.
Cultivate and promote a security culture (20%)
- Champion an internal security culture (developer training, internal CTFs, etc.).
- Mentor software engineering teams in security best practices.
- Help oversee our vulnerability management program (we call it security debt).
- Help DigitalOcean engineers understand how security events impact them. Do they need to worry about the next Log4j CVE? How does RetBleed impact DigitalOcean’s fleet?
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 ability to 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. Engineering teams are our partners, not our adversaries.
- 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.
- $140,800 - $176,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-8010
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- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with a high-growth trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As part of our team, you’ll embody our "Shark" mindset: bold, ambitious, and scrappy. You'll lead with a bias for action and take true ownership of our products, customer success, and team culture.
- We prioritize career development. At DigitalOcean, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will join a community of exceptional talent, collaborating closely with some of the brightest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance and fast-paced organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our talent development team prioritizes your professional development and provides resources to support your growth. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, subject to company policy.
- We care about your well-being. We take a comprehensive approach to our total rewards packages because we know different things drive different people. Our benefits are designed to support you and may include flexible time off, local team meetups, and mental health and well being support. Our benefits philosophy is consistent globally, but specific benefits and eligibility vary by location to reflect local needs and regulations.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. Eligible employees may also receive equity compensation, which may include a new hire equity grant and, in participating countries, the opportunity to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program. Equity awards are subject to approval and the terms of the applicable plan.
- Non-sales roles: In addition to base salary, this role is eligible to participate in DigitalOcean’s annual bonus plan and may be eligible for a new hire equity grant, subject to plan terms and local eligibility. Bonus amounts depend on company and individual performance.
- Sales roles (sales compensation eligible): In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible to earn incentive compensation under the applicable sales compensation plan and may be eligible for a new hire equity grant, subject to plan terms and local eligibility.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Skills Required
- Experience leading architectural changes or complex cross-team efforts to mitigate security vulnerabilities
- Ability to clearly communicate security topics and vulnerability classes, including the OWASP Top Ten, and provide actionable direction to product teams
- Experience partnering with internal engineering teams to address security problems across the full technology stack
- Working knowledge of virtualized environments, containerization, and continuous integration and delivery
- At least 3 years of experience guiding software teams on secure architecture design
- Experience building or reviewing threat models and creating malicious user, attacker, and abuse or misuse cases
- Working knowledge of hardware and software supply chain security
- Familiarity with object-oriented and functional programming concepts, particularly Go, JavaScript, Rust, or C
What We Do
DigitalOcean is the Inference Cloud — a full-stack, production-ready cloud platform built to run AI applications with predictable performance, sustainable economics, and radically simpler operations at scale. We are built for teams turning AI into real products — not just training models. Our advantage is not fewer features, but fewer failure modes when operating AI at scale — combining minimal operational overhead, predictable cost efficiency, and a full-stack cloud that works as a system. Hyperscalers are broad by design. Neoclouds are infrastructure-first. DigitalOcean is inference-first — with a real cloud underneath. It combines inference-optimized compute, managed inference software, and integrated cloud capabilities that reduce operational burden for teams running real workloads. Inference is the foundation—not the boundary. Everything else builds on top of it.
Why Work With Us
At DO, we do career-defining work. We innovate with AI and build cutting-edge tech. Our rewards to match that intensity - to motivate you, recognize your impact, and give you what you need to thrive. If you have a growth mindset, like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment, you'll find your place here.
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