Senior Product Security Engineer, Secure Design

Senior Product Security Engineer, Secure Design

Digital Ocean is looking for a Senior Product Security Engineer who partners with engineers to assess security risk of new products and features. You will report to the Senior Manager of Product Security. Our Secure Design team enables Digital Ocean to build secure‑by‑design products, focusing on reviewing early‑stage decisions, helping develop threat models, scaling impact via automation, curating security patterns, authoring security guidance, training, and championing security initiatives.

Threat model application designs and solutions and provide security risk assessments (70%)

• 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.

Cultivate and promote a security culture (20%)

• 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 engineers understand how security events impact them.

Build security tooling and automations to help scale the Product Security team's practices (10%)

• Use software architecture and coding patterns to reduce the impact of security issues.
• Drive architecture, patterns, and processes across engineering that make security the easiest path.
• Integrate custom security tooling into engineering workflows.

• 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 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.
• Working knowledge of modern development concepts (virtualized environments, containerization, continuous integration + delivery).

• 3+ years experience guiding software teams on secure architecture design.
• 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 object‑oriented and functional programming concepts, particularly with languages such as Go, JavaScript, Rust, or
  
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• $145,000 – $200,000
• This is a remote role.

• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting‑edge technology company with an upward trajectory, proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
• 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, and we provide resources for growth.
• We care about your well‑being. Regardless of your location, we provide a competitive array of benefits to support you from Employee Assistance Program to flexible time off policy.
• 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.
• Digital Ocean 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.