Compensation Overview

We’re looking for a Product Security Engineer to solve large-scale security challenges while reducing the impact and burden of these security initiatives on engineering. We believe application security best enables the enterprise when it integrates into developer lifecycles. Your work will make our million+ customers more secure and will help ensure that DigitalOcean is a respected contributor to the broader security community.

As a member of the Security Engineering team, you will report to the Senior Manager of Product Security. You will collaborate with other security teams and the rest of DigitalOcean to guide secure architecture design and reduce security risk in the organization through the construction of guardrails and paved paths that 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 for the larger internet community.

What you’ll be doing:

Review architecture and code and provide security guidance (70%)

• Provide 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.
• Review source code against secure coding best practices and contribute security requirements.

Create a paved road for engineers to build securely (20%)

• Drive the software design and implementation of security services, tools, and libraries to provide secure defaults to the rest of the organization.
• Promote security remediations in the CI/CD pipeline by building tools and services for engineers to consume (e.g. custom Semgrep implementation, developer-first secrets management).
• Help build the platform that ensures software development at DigitalOcean is safe, easy, and low-risk.

Cultivate and promote a security culture (10%)

• Champion an internal security culture (developer training, internal CTFs, etc.).
• 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?

What we’ll expect from you:

We know you will have a unique combination of skills and don’t expect you to check every box on this list. Below are some of the skills that you have already acquired or will have the opportunity to learn while at DigitalOcean:

Required qualifications:

• 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. Engineering teams are our partners, not our adversaries.
• Hands-on experience in software engineering projects. We primarily develop in Go, JavaScript, and Python. You are comfortable writing code with good test coverage..
• Working knowledge of modern development concepts (virtualized environments, containerization, continuous integration + delivery).

Preferred qualifications:

• 1.5 to 3 or more years of experience in application security or product security roles.
• Do you have 3+ years of software engineering experience, are interested in moving into a dedicated security role, and can share examples of championing security issues in the past? We also want to speak to you!
• Proven professional experience guiding software teams on secure architecture design.
• Working knowledge of network architecture and/or system architecture.
• 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.

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We are proud to work here. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud computing 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 your overall well-being, from one-time work from home stipend to wellness allowance 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 between $100,000 - $180,000 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.
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. 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.

*This is a remote role

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