Senior Software Engineer, Security Products

DigitalOcean is a cloud technology company focused on simplifying scalable cloud and AI infrastructure for builders. The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain security products and infrastructure, including real-time threat detection engines, security APIs, streaming analytics, Kubernetes-based solutions, and large-scale security data pipelines. The role also leads technical design and mentors junior engineers while collaborating with security and cloud platform teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop real-time security detection engines using Apache Flink and Kafka for threat detection at cloud scale
• Build high-performance security APIs and microservices using Go and JavaScript/Node.js
• Implement streaming analytics for security event correlation, anomaly detection, and threat intelligence
• Architect and implement security solutions running on Kubernetes at hyperscale
• Develop security data pipelines processing petabytes of logs, network traffic, and telemetry data
• Lead technical design for complex security platform features from conception to production
• Collaborate with security researchers, threat analysts, and cloud platform teams
• Mentor junior engineers on security engineering best practices and cloud-native development

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant exposure to building products at security companies or within security functions
• Expert-level Go and strong JavaScript/Node.js skills
• Proven track record of designing and implementing high-throughput, scalable systems with large data requirements
• Deep understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, and consistency - Production Apache Flink and advanced Kafka experience processing high-volume event streams
• Deep Kubernetes expertise running security-critical workloads at scale
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) with understanding of cloud security models, infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform, Helm, Chef)
• Experience building systems handling millions of events per second
• Familiarity with various security tools and technologies (e.g., SIEM, WAF, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanners)
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and rapidly evolving environment
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Knowledge of cryptography and secure communication protocols
• Contributions to open-source security projects