Staff Security Software Engineer
DigitalOceanSan Francisco, CA, United States4 days ago
Job type
- Full-time
Job description8+ years of hands‑on experience in software engineering projects, ideally with a security focus, in a complex, high‑scale SaaS or IaaS environment. You are an expert in writing robust code with good test coverage and demonstrated success in delivering projects. Understanding of cloud‑native services and infrastructure provisioning (e.g. compute, storage, networking). Deep familiarity with cloud services & infrastructure—compute, storage, network, managed services—and related abuse tactics, including DDoS, spamming, phishing, cryptomining, and bot networks. Strong analytical and reporting skills, with proficiency in SQL and data warehouse querying (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery). A customer‑first mindset—you aim to maximize abuse prevention while avoiding false‑positives that could impact high‑value customers. Excellent communication and documentation skills; you can clearly articulate patterns, mitigation strategies, and tradeoffs to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. You have 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. High integrity, strong judgment, and a track record of working independently on high‑impact investigations and policy decisions. 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, Elasticsearch, Prometheus / VictoriaMetrics, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions. Experience with Looker, Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow. $199,680 - $249,600 This is a remote role We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting‑edge technology company with an upward trajectory, simplifying cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. We prioritize career development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. Our organizational development team will provide resources to ensure you keep growing, and we provide reimbursement for conferences, training, and education. We care about your well‑being. We provide a competitive array of benefits to support you, from our Employee Assistance Program to flexible time off policy. We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees. DigitalOcean is an equal‑opportunity employer. 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.
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We are looking for a Staff Security Software Engineer who is passionate about detecting and mitigating abuse in the Cloud.
As a Staff Security Software Engineer at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. This role reports to the Senior Manager of Security Engineering within the Security organization. You should have experience developing and maintaining software systems in a complex, high‑scale environment, analyzing outcomes and communicating insights to stakeholders, and rapidly devising solutions that are in alignment with overall business goals. Our team is focused on enabling DigitalOcean to scale safely by building systems that detect and prevent abuse on our platform. We highly value collaboration and growth, and work closely with other teams in the Security organization to deliver high quality solutions and build tooling to boost their efficiency.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and deploy resilient services and tooling that provide security capabilities at scale, primarily in Go, with some work in Javascript and Python.
- Research and design automated approaches to detecting and actioning 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.
- Measure the efficacy of our services and tools, using logs, metrics, and audit records, to drive reporting and decision‑making, leading to iterative and transformative security improvements as DigitalOcean scales.
What You’ll Add To DigitalOcean
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Compensation Range
Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
Seniority level : Mid‑Senior level
Employment type : Full‑time
Job function : Information Technology and Engineering
Industries : Internet Publishing
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