Senior Product Security Engineer

About DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is the AI-Native Cloud purpose-built for the inference and agentic era. Its five-layer integrated platform—spanning GPU and CPU infrastructure, core cloud, inference, data, and managed agent orchestration—is open throughout with no vendor lock-in, giving builders everything they need to start fast, scale production AI workloads, and improve unit economics. More than 650,000 customers and millions of developers globally trust DigitalOcean to build, ship, and scale their applications.

DigitalOcean

AI-Native Cloud. ☁️

Cloud ComputingCloud ServersVirtual HostingCloud HostingCloud InfrastructureSimple Hostingand Virtual Servers

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digitalocean.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Software Development

Broomfield, Colorado

2012

Public Company

177k LinkedIn followers

Raised $2.7B

• 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. Do they need to worry about the next Log4j CVE? How does RetBleed impact DigitalOcean’s fleet?
• 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.

Required

• 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. Engineering teams are our partners, not our adversaries.
• Working knowledge of modern development concepts (virtualized environments, containerization, continuous integration + delivery).

Preferred

• 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.

• $140,800 - $176,000
• This is a remote role
• JR: 2026-8010
• #LI-Remote
• Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
• We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
• We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.