Staff Security Software Engineer

DigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company focused on simplifying cloud and AI for builders. They are seeking a Staff Security Software Engineer to design and implement security capabilities at scale, enabling the company to detect and mitigate abuse in their cloud services.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy resilient services and tooling that provide security capabilities at scale, primarily in Go, with some work in Javascript and Python
• Research and design automated approaches to detecting and actioning abuse and misuse of DigitalOcean products and services
• Work with product and engineering teams to design and implement secure architectures
• Design and build internal tools that enable our Security Operations Center to do more, faster
• Measure the efficacy of our services and tools, using logs, metrics, and audit records, to drive reporting and decision-making, leading to iterative and transformative security improvements as DigitalOcean scales

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering projects, ideally with a security focus, in a complex, high-scale SaaS or IaaS environment
• Expert in writing robust code with good test coverage and demonstrated success in delivering projects
• Understanding of cloud-native services and infrastructure provisioning (e.g. compute, storage, networking)
• Deep familiarity with cloud services & infrastructure—compute, storage, network, managed services—and related abuse tactics, including DDoS, spamming, phishing, cryptomining, and bot networks
• Strong analytical and reporting skills, with proficiency in SQL and data warehouse querying (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery)
• A customer-first mindset—you aim to maximize abuse prevention while avoiding false-positives that could impact high-value customers
• Excellent communication and documentation skills; you can clearly articulate patterns, mitigation strategies, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Record of partnering with internal engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements and tackle security problems across an entire stack with empathy and creativity
• High integrity, strong judgment, and a track record of working independently on high-impact investigations and policy decisions
• Design, develop, and deploy resilient services and tooling that provide security capabilities at scale, primarily in Go, with some work in Javascript and Python
• Research and design automated approaches to detecting and actioning abuse and misuse of DigitalOcean products and services
• Work with product and engineering teams to design and implement secure architectures
• Design and build internal tools that enable our Security Operations Center to do more, faster
• Measure the efficacy of our services and tools, using logs, metrics, and audit records, to drive reporting and decision-making, leading to iterative and transformative security improvements as DigitalOcean scales
• Experience with microservice architectures, asynchronous and event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests
• Experience in building secure by default services and applications
• Familiarity with technologies such as gRPC, Docker, Elasticsearch, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions
• Experience with Looker, Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow