DigitalOcean
ProductSecurityEngineerII
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“Product Security Engineer II at DigitalOcean. Skills: Product Security, Application Security, Security Architecture, Software Engineering, Threat Modeling. Provide holistic assessments of security layers across infrastructure, application, people, and processes.. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to threat model and architect secure and resilient systems.”
What You'll Achieve.
Reduce the impact and burden of security initiatives on engineering.; Guide secure architecture design and reduce security risk in the organization.; Provide secure defaults to the rest of the organization.; Ensure software development at DigitalOcean is safe, easy, and low-risk.
Industry & Context.
Solve large-scale security challenges; Reduce the impact and burden of security initiatives on engineering; Reduce security risk in the organization; Solve incredibly complex problems at a high-scale
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Ability to clearly communicate security topics and vulnerability classes (e.g. OWASP Top Ten) and 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., Hands-on experience in software engineering projects., Comfortable writing code with good test coverage., Working knowledge of modern development concepts (virtualized environments, containerization, continuous integration + delivery, Public Cloud such as AWS/GCP).
Nice to Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field., 3+ years experience guiding software teams on security architecture design., 3+ years of experience in application security or product security roles., Do you have 3+ years of software engineering experience, are interested in moving into a dedicated security role, and can share examples of championing security issues in the past?, Proven professional experience guiding software teams on secure architecture design., Working knowledge of system architecture and/or application architecture., 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.
What You'll Do.
Provide holistic assessments of security layers across infrastructure
Collaborate with product managers
and engineers to threat model and architect secure and resilient systems.
Review source code against secure coding best practices and contribute security requirements.
Drive the software design and implementation of security services
and libraries to provide secure defaults to the rest of the organization.
Promote security remediations in the CI/CD pipeline by building tools and services for engineers to consume.
Help build the platform that ensures software development at DigitalOcean is safe
Champion an internal security culture (developer training
Help DigitalOcean engineers understand how security events impact them.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with other security teams and the rest of DigitalOcean to guide secure architecture design and reduce security risk in the organization.; Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to threat model and architect secure and resilient systems.; Partnering with internal engineering teams to tackle security problems across an entire stack with empathy and creativity.
Communication Scope
Ability to clearly communicate security topics and vulnerability classes (e.g. OWASP Top Ten) and provide actionable direction to product teams.
Full Job Description
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world. We’re looking for a Product Security Engineer to solve large-scale security challenges while reducing the impact and burden of these security initiatives on engineering. We believe application security best enables the enterprise when it integrates into developer lifecycles. As a member of the Security Engineering team, you will collaborate with other security teams and the rest of DigitalOcean to guide secure architecture design and reduce security risk in the organization through the construction of guardrails and paved paths that 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 for the larger internet community. What You’ll Do: Provide holistic assessments of security layers across infrastructure, application, people, and processes. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to threat model and architect secure and resilient systems. Review source code against secure coding best practices and contribute security requirements. Drive the software design and implementation of security services, tools, and libraries to provide secure defaults to the rest of the organization. Promote security remediations in the CI/CD pipeline by building tools and services for engineers to consume (e. g. custom Semgrep implementation, developer-first secrets management). Help build the platform that ensures software development at DigitalOcean is safe
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