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We are looking for a highly experienced and motivated Senior Security Analyst who is passionate about advanced security monitoring, detection engineering, and threat hunting. As a Senior Security Analyst at DigitalOcean, you will lead and own critical aspects of our security monitoring program, shaping how we detect, respond to, and prevent threats. You will leverage deep expertise to engineer sophisticated detection capabilities, develop comprehensive metrics to measure program effectiveness, and drive continuous improvement across alerting and response functions. You will be a trusted member of Infrastructure Security and will collaborate closely with other cross-functional teams to close detection gaps and elevate the organization’s overall security posture.
What You’ll Be Doing:- Lead real-time monitoring, triage, and analysis of complex security events, providing verifiable assessments of threats and incident severity.
- Engineer and automate advanced detection use cases across DigitalOcean's cloud and corporate environments, leveraging deep knowledge of adversary TTPs to design and implement scalable alerting solutions.
- Develop, track, and report on key metrics for security monitoring effectiveness and incident response performance, using data to drive improvements.
- Own and evolve the security monitoring program strategy, ensuring alignment with evolving threat landscapes and business priorities.
- Work closely with Infrastructure Security Engineers to identify log sources, integrate, and maintain data pipelines (e.g., log sources, forwarders, parsing, enrichment).
- Perform proactive threat hunting and hypothesis-driven investigations and investigate anomalous activity to uncover hidden or emerging threats within DigitalOcean’s environments.
- Mentor and guide lower level analysts, reviewing escalated incidents and providing technical leadership during incident response.
- Coordinate threat analysis using historical data and architecture diagrams to identify attack vectors.
- Collaborate with multiple teams to close monitoring gaps and improve overall security.
- Optimize security tools and processes to reduce false positives, improve detection fidelity, and automate response workflows where appropriate.
- Lead the creation and maintenance of detailed playbooks, runbooks, and documentation to standardize detection and response efforts.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with SIEM platforms and endpoint detection tools, with proven impact on security monitoring programs.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing and tuning complex detection rules and alerting logic across diverse environments.
- Deep understanding of network and endpoint security, attack methodologies, threat actor tactics, and mitigation strategies.
- Experience in proactive threat hunting, vulnerability management, and coordinating with red teams or penetration testers.
- Proven leadership in driving security program initiatives, setting metrics, and influencing cross-team security strategy.
- Excellent communication skills for technical documentation, incident reporting, and mentoring less experienced analysts.
- Proven experience with scripting and query languages (Python, Bash, SQL) to automate detection and response workflows.
- Demonstrated proficiency in Linux, Windows, and macOS.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a collaborative and growth-focused mindset.
- $140,800 - $176,000
*This is a remote role
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- 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. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. 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 and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- 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 in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- 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.
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
- 6+ years in detection & response, insider risk, or security engineering.
- Hands-on experience with UEBA, SIEM, DLP, UAM/SOAR concepts and tooling.
- Scripting proficiency (Python, Go, Bash) for detection content and automation.
- Familiarity with macOS, Windows, Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
- Working knowledge of adversary tactics, data exfiltration techniques, and frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST).
- Demonstrated discretion and ethical judgment handling sensitive employee data.
- Perform data analytics in large datasets using modern data science tools and techniques (e.g., Pandas).
- Data-science/anomaly-detection background, prior work securing AI/ML or GPU infrastructure.
DigitalOcean Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as market‑leading across medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health, with company‑paid life and income‑protection. This positions core healthcare and protection benefits as a standout element of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is characterized as above‑average, frequently highlighted alongside a phased return‑to‑work program. This indicates strong support for new parents beyond baseline policies.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — The package includes recurring equity grants and access to an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. This provides meaningful ownership opportunities alongside cash compensation.
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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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