Senior Security Platform Engineer (Remote)

Visa Hunt; United States; On-site; USD 140,800 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Security Products team, designing, building, and maintaining security infrastructure to protect our platform and customers’ data.

You’ll design real-time detection engines with Flink and Kafka, develop Go and Node.js microservices, and deploy security workloads on Kubernetes at scale, with cloud platform experience (AWS/GCP/Azure). This remote role offers strong growth and equity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant exposure to building products at security companies or within security functions.
• Expert-level Go and strong JavaScript/Node.js skills
• Proven track record of designing and implementing high-throughput, scalable systems with large data requirements
• Deep understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, and consistency - Production Apache Flink and advanced Kafka experience processing high-volume event streams.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise running security-critical workloads at scale
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) with understanding of cloud security models, infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform, Helm, Chef)
• Experience building systems handling millions of events per second
• Familiarity with various security tools and technologies (e.g., SIEM, WAF, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanners).
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and rapidly evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop real-time security detection engines using Apache Flink and Kafka for threat detection at cloud scale
• Build high-performance security APIs and microservices using Go and JavaScript/Node.js
• Implement streaming analytics for security event correlation, anomaly detection, and threat intelligence
• Architect and implement security solutions running on Kubernetes at hyperscale
• Develop security data pipelines processing petabytes of logs, network traffic, and telemetry data
• Lead technical design for complex security platform features from conception to production
• Collaborate with security researchers, threat analysts, and cloud platform teams
• Mentor junior engineers on security engineering best practices and cloud-native development

Skills

Go

JavaScript/Node.js

Distributed systems

Security engineering

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Tools

Apache Flink

Kafka

Terraform

Helm

Chef

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Security Products team, designing, building, and maintaining security infrastructure to protect our platform and customers’ data.

You’ll design real-time detection engines with Flink and Kafka, develop Go and Node.js microservices, and deploy security workloads on Kubernetes at scale, with cloud platform experience (AWS/GCP/Azure). This remote role offers strong growth and equity.