Remote Principal Architect, Security Telemetry & SIEM

DigitalOcean; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 235,200 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Principal Architect to join our Customer Trust & Engineering organization. In this role, you will lead the technical strategy for audit logging and SIEM integration, building a coherent security data platform. You will mentor engineers and shape how we approach observability at scale.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on audit logging and security telemetry within cloud ecosystems.

This role is fully remote and comes with a competitive salary ranging from $235,200 to $294,000.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in audit logging or security telemetry.
• Expert in Go and designing gRPC-based microservices.
• Hands-on knowledge of high-volume stream processing frameworks.
• Experience developing security visibility platforms and compliance systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for Audit Logging and Security Visibility.
• Architect high-throughput audit and telemetry pipelines.
• Design and deliver integrations with leading SIEM platforms.
• Lead the redesign of audit log infrastructure for compliance.

Skills

Software engineering expertise

Audit logging experience

Security telemetry

SIEM integration

High-throughput data pipelines

Leadership & communication

Tools

Go

Apache Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

SQL

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Principal Architect to join our Customer Trust & Engineering organization. In this role, you will lead the technical strategy for audit logging and SIEM integration, building a coherent security data platform. You will mentor engineers and shape how we approach observability at scale.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on audit logging and security telemetry within cloud ecosystems.

This role is fully remote and comes with a competitive salary ranging from $235,200 to $294,000.