Product Security Engineer, Secure Design

DigitalOcean•Boston, MA

3d•Remote

About The Position

DigitalOcean is seeking a Product Security Engineer passionate about partnering with engineers to assess the security risk of new products and features. As a member of the Secure Design team, you will report to the Manager of Secure Design. The Secure Design team enables DigitalOcean to build secure-by-design products by leveraging strong relationships with both product teams and the rest of security engineering. The team's scope focuses on reviewing early-stage decisions, developing threat models, scaling impact via automation, curating security patterns, authoring security guidance, training, and championing security initiatives. You will collaborate with other security teams and the rest of DigitalOcean to guide secure architecture design, reduce security risk in the organization, and empower engineers to make informed security decisions. Security at DO involves solving complex, high-scale problems that impact customers, products, and the internet community.

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.
Working knowledge of modern development concepts (virtualized environments, containerization, continuous integration + delivery).

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Threat model application designs and solutions and provide security risk assessments (70%)
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.
Cultivate and promote a security culture (20%)
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.
Build security tooling and automations to help scale the Product Security team's practices (10%)
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.