Product Security Engineer, Secure Design

DigitalOcean is a cloud technology company focused on simplifying scalable cloud and AI solutions for builders. The Product Security Engineer will partner with product and engineering teams to assess security risks, threat model application designs, guide secure architecture, promote security culture, and build tooling and automations that scale product security practices.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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?
• 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

Requirements:

• 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)
• 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