Senior Product Security Engineer, Security Platform

We’re looking for a Senior Product Security Engineer who is passionate about building secure guardrails and paved roads for engineering teams.

As a member of the Security Platform team, you will report to the Senior Manager of Product Security. 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 drive secure software 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:

Build secure-by-default guardrails for engineers (60%)

• 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.
• 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.

Integrate SaaS and homegrown security solutions into developer workflows (30%)

• We like Semgrep, and believe it accelerates our ability to create guardrails around safe engineering practices. You will add to our growing corpus of custom, internal Semgrep rules.
• We do not believe in Security Obstructionism and carefully integrate a small number of vendor tools into our development pipelines. You will own 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.

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 framework (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?

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

Required qualifications:

• 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.
• Understanding of and ability to clearly communicate security topics and vulnerability classes (e.g. OWASP Top Ten).
• You need to understand why the current project provides security benefits to our engineers.
• 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with technologies such as gRPC, Docker, Prometheus, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault, and GitHub Actions.
• Experience with microservice architectures, asynchronous and event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• 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 w