Senior Product Security Engineer

DigitalOcean

$140K — $176K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in detection & response, insider risk, or security engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with UEBA, SIEM, DLP, UAM/SOAR concepts and tools.
  • Scripting proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for automation.
  • Familiarity with macOS, Windows, Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Knowledge of adversary tactics, data exfiltration techniques, and frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and NIST.
  • Demonstrated discretion and ethical judgment with sensitive employee data.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the insider threat program strategy.
  • Advise on and implement preventative controls to balance risk and user experience.
  • Engineer and automate insider-threat detection and investigation workflows.
  • Build, measure, and tune detection content on various platforms.
  • Collaborate with Infrastructure Security Engineers to enhance data pipelines.
  • Develop a use-case library with corresponding playbooks.
  • Investigate anomalous activities and provide technical evidence.

Benefits

  • Flexible remote work environment.
  • Collaborative work culture involving cross-functional teams.
  • Opportunity to influence key security initiatives and programs.
  • Access to modern data science tools and techniques for analysis.
  • Engagement with emerging threat landscapes and insider risk TTPs.
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Senior Product Security Engineer who is passionate about partnering with engineers to assess the security risk of new products and features.

As a member of the Secure Design team, you will report to the Manager of Secure Design. 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.

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 (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 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?

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.
What you'll add to DigitalOcean:

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

Preferred qualifications:
  • 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 C.
Compensation Range:
  • $140,800 - $176,000

*This is a remote role



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