Product Security Engineer, Secure Design

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.

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.

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.

• $113,600 - $142,000

*This is a hybrid role

JR: 2026-8190

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