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 Product Security team, you will report to the Senior Manager of Product Security. Our mission is to minimize security risk while maximizing business velocity. This staff engineer will help oversee the strategic functions of two Product Security teams: Secure Design and Security Platform.
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.
Our Security Platform team secures the development and environment of our engineers and production services. We achieve this by implementing controls that layer security into the groundwork of our engineering infrastructure, streamlining implementations, and measuring effectiveness. We help build the platform that ensures software development at DigitalOcean is safe, easy, and low-risk.
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 (60%)
- 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.
Build secure-by-default guardrails for engineers (30%)
- Design and build internal tooling to provide engineering teams with secure-by-default configurations and libraries.
- Write robust, resilient, and maintainable software, primarily in Go and Python. You may sometimes work on a frontend.
- We do not believe in Security Obstructionism and carefully integrate a small number of vendor tools into our development pipelines. You will help drive the successful integration of these tools as well as build security initiatives around their data that empower engineers rather than add friction or blocking gates.
- Prioritize the user experience (our customers are internal dev teams) to ensure security’s libraries and services are the easiest, fastest way to get work done.
Cultivate and promote a security culture (10%)
- 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?
- 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.
- Strong knowledge of modern development concepts (virtualized environments, containerization, continuous integration + delivery).
- 6+ years experience guiding software teams on secure architecture design.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering projects, ideally with a security focus. We primarily develop in Go, Python, and JavaScript. You are comfortable writing robust code with good test coverage and can point to specific examples of projects you’ve successfully delivered in the past.
- 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 technologies such as gRPC, Docker, Prometheus, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault, and GitHub Actions.
- $170,000-$200,000
*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.
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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.
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