Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DigitalOcean is a cloud technology company focused on building simple, scalable cloud solutions for developers and businesses. The Senior Product Security Engineer will partner with product and engineering teams to assess security risks, develop threat models, guide secure architecture, and provide remediation advice. The role will also promote security culture and build tooling and automations to 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
Skills
- 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)
- 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
Benefits
- Resources from the organizational development team to support continued growth and development
- 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, based on company and individual performance
- Equity compensation for eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire
- Option to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Remote work arrangement
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