Product Security Engineer, Secure Design

DigitalOcean; United States; On-site; USD 114,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Product Security Engineer to partner with engineers, assess security risk, and enable secure-by-design products. You will work with the Secure Design team, reporting to the Manager of Secure Design, to review early decisions, develop threat models, and scale impact via automation.

You will guide secure architecture design, reduce organizational risk, and empower engineers to make informed security decisions across the product.

Qualifications

• Experience leading architectural changes to mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Ability to clearly communicate security topics and actionable direction.
• Partnered with internal engineering teams to tackle security problems.
• Knowledge of modern development concepts (virtualization, containers, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Threat model applications and provide security risk assessments.
• Collaborate with PMs, designers, and engineers on secure architectures.
• Provide remediation guidance to development teams.
• Build and scale security tooling and automation.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Cross-team collaboration

OWASP Top Ten

CI/CD

Go

JavaScript

Rust

C

Containerization

Tools

Secure tooling experience

Job description

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

We’re looking for a Product Security Engineer who is 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. Our Secure Design team enables DigitalOcean to build secure‑by‑design products. We leverage strong relationships with both product teams and the rest of security engineering to be successful. Our scope is primarily focused on reviewing early‑stage decisions, helping develop 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 means solving incredibly complex problems at a high‑scale that have real impact for our customers, our products, and the larger internet community.

What You’ll Do

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 Qualifications

• 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).

What you’ll add to DigitalOcean

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Compensation Range

• $113,600 - $142,000
• This is a remote role

JR: 2026-8190

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.
• DigitalOcean is an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

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.