Product Security Engineer, Secure Design at DigitalOcean | Torre

Product Security Engineer, Secure Design

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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.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.W 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.What you’ll add to DigitalOcean: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).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.Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOceanWe 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.We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career.We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits.We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills.DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer.Application Limit:You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period.