Senior Security Software Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Engineer who is passionate about making the Internet a safer place for everyone.

As a member of the Security Software Engineering team, you will report to its Senior Manager. Our team is focused on enabling DigitalOcean to scale safely by building systems that detect and evict fraud & abuse on the DigitalOcean platform. We highly value collaboration and growth, and work closely with other teams in the Security organization to deliver high quality solutions and also build tooling to boost their efficiency.

Our customers trust us with their data and operations, and we take that responsibility seriously. Security at DO means solving highly complex problems on a large scale that have real impact for our customers, our products, and for the larger internet community.

What You'll Do

• Develop and deploy resilient services and tooling that provide security capabilities at scale, primarily in Go. You may sometimes work in Javascript and Python.
• Research and design automated approaches to reducing the risk of fraud, abuse, and misuse of DigitalOcean products and services.
• Work with product and engineering teams to design and implement secure architectures.
• Design and build internal tools that enable our Security Operations Center to do more, faster.
• Consistently improve security as the platform scales, driving continuous improvement through data collection and correlation, being mindful that security should be an efficiency enabler for the business - not an obstacle.
  
  

Required Qualifications

What you'll add to DigitalOcean:

• 5 years of professional experience in software engineering projects, ideally with a security focus. We primarily develop in Go, with some Python and JavaScript. You are comfortable writing robust code with good test coverage and can point to specific examples of projects you’ve successfully delivered in the past.
• A record of partnering with internal engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements and tackle security problems across an entire stack with empathy and creativity.
• A high degree of curiosity, with a desire to deeply understand problems and build solutions that align with business needs and goals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. You can explain your thought process and proactively write clear documentation.
• Desire to build secure by default services and applications.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with microservice architectures, asynchronous and event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests.
• Experience in building secure by default services and applications.
• Familiarity with technologies such as gRPC, Docker, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
  
  

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 between $150,000.00 - $167,000.00 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.
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. 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.
• This is a remote role