Senior Product Security Engineer
About The Position
DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to join their Secure Design team. This role involves partnering with engineers to assess security risks of new products and features, contributing to the development of secure-by-design products. The team focuses on reviewing early-stage decisions, threat modeling, automation, security guidance, training, and championing security initiatives. The Senior Product Security Engineer will collaborate with other security teams and DigitalOcean personnel to guide secure architecture design, reduce organizational security risk, and empower engineers to make informed security decisions. This position offers the opportunity to solve complex, high-scale security problems with a significant impact on 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.
Benefits
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Local Employee Meetups.
- Flexible time off policy.
- Bonus in addition to base salary.
- Equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire.
- Option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
