Product Security Engineer, Secure Design
DigitalOcean · United States
Posted 20 days ago · $113,600 - $142,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 20 days DigitalOcean's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 68% of DigitalOcean's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at DigitalOcean
- high 101 stale, 1 reposted of 151 open
- Hiring momentum
- 197 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from DigitalOcean's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for DigitalOcean.
About this role
As a Product Security Engineer at DigitalOcean, you will partner with engineering teams to assess security risks of new products and features, focusing on secure design practices. Your role involves threat modeling, providing security assessments, mentoring teams on security best practices, and building security tooling to enhance the security culture within the organization. You will also oversee vulnerability management and help engineers understand the implications of security events.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of DigitalOcean as an employer.
What you need
- 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 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.
- Working knowledge of modern development concepts (virtualized environments, containerization, continuous integration + delivery).
Nice to have
- 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.
What you get
- Competitive salary range of $113,600 - $142,000.
- Bonus eligibility based on company and individual performance.
- Equity compensation including grants upon hire and participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses for continued growth and development.
- Flexible time off policy.
Worth weighing
- Remote role with potential variations in benefits based on local regulations.
- No specific details on the technology stack used in the role.
- The emphasis on collaboration with engineering teams suggests a need for strong interpersonal skills.
Summarised from DigitalOcean's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by DigitalOcean on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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