DigitalOcean
SeniorProductSecurityEngineer
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“Senior Product Security Engineer at DigitalOcean. Skills: Product Security Engineering, AI Security, Threat Modeling, Secure Architecture Design, Software Engineering. 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 security risk in the organization through the construction of guardrails and paved paths that empower engineers to make informed security decisions; 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; reducing the impact and burden of these security initiatives on engineering; solving incredibly complex problems at a high-scale
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
communication and stakeholder management skills, Hands-on experience in software engineering projects, Working knowledge of modern development concepts (virtualized environments, containerization, continuous integration + delivery, Public Cloud such as AWS/GCP), Hands-on experience with AI security frameworks such as MITRE ATLAS, MAESTRO, and OWASP Top 10 for LLMs/Agents/MCP, expertise in threat modeling and mitigating a broad range of AI security risks, including direct and indirect prompt injection, training data poisoning, tool poisoning, and data exfiltration across agentic workflows, A record of partnering with internal engineering teams to tackle security problems across an entire stack with empathy and creativity
Nice to Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, 5+ years of experience in application security or product security roles, 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, Proven ability to secure end-to-end AI/ML pipelines, covering data ingestion, model training, deployment, inference, and continuous monitoring, 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
contribute security requirements
Drive the software design and implementation of security services
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; guide secure architecture design; partnering with internal engineering teams to tackle security problems across an entire stack; Engineering teams are our partners, not our adversaries
Communication Scope
communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to simplify complex security risks; provide actionable business and technical guidance to product teams and stakeholders
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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