Senior Product Security Engineer

digitalocean98; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Professional development resources

Flexible time off

Employee assistance program

Potential bonus and equity

Job summary

digitalocean98 is seeking a Security Architect to help product and engineering teams identify and reduce security risks during design. You will perform architecture reviews, threat modeling, and practical remediation guidance to make secure development easier to adopt.

You will work with cross‑functional teams, explain trade‑offs, mentor engineers, and help automate security tooling and vulnerability management.

Qualifications

• Experience leading architectural changes or cross-team work to address security vulnerabilities.
• Ability to explain security concepts clearly and give product teams practical direction.
• Track record of working empathetically with engineering teams on security issues across a technology stack.
• Working knowledge of modern development environments, including virtualization, containers, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Assess software and network architectures across infrastructure, applications, people, and processes, and provide security risk guidance.
• Work with product managers, designers, and engineers to model threats and design secure, resilient systems.
• Explain design trade-offs and recommend approaches that meet both product goals and security needs.
• Give development teams actionable, hands-on remediation guidance and help them respond to security vulnerabilities and events.
• Promote security practices through training, internal exercises, and mentoring; contribute to vulnerability management.
• Build or integrate security tools and automate engineering workflows to make safer patterns easier to follow.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Communication

Cross-team collaboration

Vulnerability management

CI/CD knowledge

Programming concepts

Tools

Security tooling

Job description

Role overview

Help product and engineering teams identify and reduce security risks while products and features are being designed. This role combines architecture reviews and threat modeling with practical remediation advice, security education, vulnerability program support, and tools that make secure development easier to adopt.

Responsibilities

• Assess software and network architectures across infrastructure, applications, people, and processes, and provide security risk guidance.
• Work with product managers, designers, and engineers to model threats and design secure, resilient systems.
• Explain design trade-offs and recommend approaches that meet both product goals and security needs.
• Give development teams actionable, hands-on remediation guidance and help them respond to security vulnerabilities and events.
• Promote security practices through training, internal exercises, and mentoring; contribute to vulnerability management.
• Build or integrate security tools and automate engineering workflows to make safer patterns easier to follow.

Requirements

• Experience leading architectural changes or cross-team work to address security vulnerabilities.
• Ability to explain security concepts and vulnerability classes clearly and give product teams practical direction.
• A track record of working empathetically with engineering teams on security issues across a technology stack.
• Working knowledge of modern development environments, including virtualization, containers, and continuous integration and delivery.

Nice to have

• At least three years guiding software teams on secure architecture.
• Experience creating or reviewing threat models, including attacker and misuse scenarios.
• Familiarity with hardware and software supply chain security.
• Understanding of object-oriented and functional programming, especially in Go, JavaScript, Rust, or C.

Benefits and work setup

The position is remote. The source mentions professional development resources, flexible time off, employee assistance, and potential bonus and equity compensation; benefits may vary by location.