Product Security Manager, Secure Design

Overview

Dive in and do the best work of your career rney 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.

We’re looking for a security manager passionate about enabling the business as a security partner to lead a team of Product Security engineers. You will manage a team of product security engineers dedicated to enabling Digital Ocean to build secure-by-design products, reporting to the Senior Manager of Product Security. Your primary mission is to empower this team to succeed - ensuring they have the strategy, support, and cross-functional relationships necessary to solve complex security problems  will partner with product and engineering leadership to assess risk, scale security impact via automation, and foster a culture where security is a paved path for developer success.

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.

• Lead and grow the team: manage, mentor, and hire for an expanding team of 5+ security engineers; support team members’ career growth, manage performance, maintain a high bar for technical empathy and execution, and coach them to be effective security partners, not just technical auditors.
• Scale secure design: the team conducts threat modeling and design reviews; your role is to clear the path for them to do so efficiently; actively engage in the review process to ensure a high bar of technical rigor and consistency; identify bottlenecks and drive strategy to scale impact via automation and process improvement.
• Build bridges, not walls: cultivate strong relationships with product management and engineering leadership; ensure your team is viewed as empathetic partners who help engineers make informed decisions.
• Foster a security culture: support your team in championing security initiatives (such as internal CTFs and training) that raise the bar for the entire organization.
• Strategic prioritization: help your team navigate the trade-offs between functional product goals and security requirements; protect their time by prioritizing high-impact work over low-risk noise.

• Experienced management: 2+ years of experience leading a team of security engineers; comfortable stepping into a role with 3-5 direct reports and a track record of elevating senior talent and keeping them engaged and unblocked.
• Servant leadership: measure your own success by the success of your team; define clear priorities to reduce context switching, clear operational paths so engineers can focus on technical execution, and ensure they receive visibility and credit for their work.
• Technical context: deep background in Product Security, Application Security, or Secure Architecture; you lead with technical credibility and can dive into threat modeling and architectural discussions; translate security expectations for cloud customers into underlying principles embedded in product architectures and designs.
• Empathy & communication: translate complex security risks into business context for leadership and teach your team to communicate with empathy.

• Compensation Range: $ - $227,000
• This is a remote role

• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, simplifying cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. You will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a strong sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
• We prioritize career development. You’ll do the best work of your career, work with some of…