Principal Architect, Security Observability & SIEM

DigitalOcean; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 235,200 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Principal Architect to join our Customer Trust & Engineering team. This role will define the technical roadmap for Audit Logging, SIEM Integration, and Unified Security Visibility, focusing on enhancing DigitalOcean's security systems to handle billions of events efficiently.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years in software engineering with expertise in audit logging, security telemetry, and infrastructure. The position offers a hybrid work model, competitive compensation, and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of software engineering expertise including 4+ years in audit logging.
• Expert in Go with experience in designing gRPC-based microservices.
• Knowledge of high-volume stream processing frameworks like Apache Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for Audit Logging and SIEM Integration.
• Design fault-tolerant, high-throughput audit and telemetry pipelines.
• Build Unified Security Dashboard aggregating signals into a customer-facing view.

Skills

Software engineering expertise

Audit logging

Security telemetry

SIEM integration

Go programming

Apache Flink

Apache Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform (IaC)

SQL (MySQL)

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Principal Architect to join our Customer Trust & Engineering team. This role will define the technical roadmap for Audit Logging, SIEM Integration, and Unified Security Visibility, focusing on enhancing DigitalOcean's security systems to handle billions of events efficiently.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years in software engineering with expertise in audit logging, security telemetry, and infrastructure. The position offers a hybrid work model, competitive compensation, and opportunities for professional growth.