Product Security Engineer
Posted 22 Jun 2026
Advertised as “Senior Product Security Engineer I”
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- Level
- I
- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
No salary listed for this role.
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. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
We want people who are passionate about making the internet a safer place for everyone.
We’re looking for a Product Security Engineer to solve large-scale security challenges while reducing the impact and burden of these security initiatives on engineering. We believe application security best enables the enterprise when it integrates into developer lifecycles.
As a member of the Security Engineering team, you will collaborate with other security teams and the rest of DigitalOcean to guide secure architecture design and reduce security risk in the organization through the construction of guardrails and paved paths that empower engineers to make informed security decisions. Security at DO means solving incredibly complex problems at a high-scale that have real impact for our customers, our products, and for the larger internet community.
What you’ll be doing:
- Provide holistic assessments of security layers across infrastructure, application, people, and processes.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to threat model and architect secure and resilient systems.
- Review source code against secure coding best practices and contribute security requirements.
- Drive the software design and implementation of security services, tools, and libraries to provide secure defaults to the rest of the organization.
- Promote security remediations in the CI/CD pipeline by building tools and services for engineers to consume (e.g. custom Semgrep implementation, developer-first secrets management).
- Help build the platform that ensures software development at DigitalOcean is safe, easy, and low-risk.
- Champion an internal security culture (developer training, internal CTFs, etc.).
- 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?
What we’ll expect from you:
We know you will have a unique combination of skills and don’t expect you to check every box on this list. Below are some of the skills that you have already acquired or will have the opportunity to learn while at DigitalOcean: