Senior Application Security Engineer I, Security Platform
DigitalOcean · Posted Oct 6
Cloud infrastructure, virtual machines, managed database, and AI inference services
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About the role
DigitalOcean's Security Engineering team partners with engineering teams across the company to ensure the safety of new products and features and to reduce security risk at high scale. The team drives secure software design, AppSec tooling such as SAST and SCA, secrets management, and secure-by-default developer tooling for its cloud platform. This role owns coordination of AppSec tooling coverage, authors custom Semgrep rules, and builds internal security tooling primarily in Go and Python.
What you will do
- Help drive operations of our deployed AppSec tooling, including SAST, SCA, and secrets management. You will synthesize findings into actionable, impactful priorities and work with engineering teams to close those gaps.
- We like Semgrep, and believe it accelerates our ability to create guardrails around safe engineering practices. You will add to our growing corpus of custom, internal Semgrep rules.
- Help accelerate the wider security organization through your secure engineering capabilities. You may build an AI agent to support the Trust & Safety organization or an alert pipeline for the SOC.
- Design and build internal tooling to provide engineering teams with secure-by-default configurations and libraries.
- Write robust, resilient, and maintainable software, primarily in Go and Python. You may sometimes work on a frontend.
- Prioritize the user experience (our customers are internal dev teams) to ensure security’s libraries and services are the easiest, fastest way to get work done.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering projects with a security focus. We primarily develop in Go, 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.
- 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.
- Understanding of and ability to clearly communicate security topics and vulnerability classes (e.g. OWASP Top Ten). You need to understand why the current project provides security benefits to our engineers.
- 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.
Preferred qualifications
- Familiarity with technologies such as gRPC, Docker, Prometheus, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault, and GitHub Actions.
- Experience with microservice architectures, asynchronous and event-driven processing, and synchronous gRPC/HTTP-based requests.
- Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
Benefits and support
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
- Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
- Employee Assistance Program
- Local Employee Meetups
- Flexible time off policy
- Bonus in addition to base salary based on company and individual performance
- Equity compensation, including equity grants upon hire
- Option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is an American cloud infrastructure provider and AI-native cloud platform built for developers, startups, and small-to-medium-sized businesses. The company provides simple, scalable virtual machines, managed databases, Kubernetes, and specialized inference engines designed to run modern application and agentic AI workloads.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 1001-5000 employees
- Founded
- 2011-06-24
- Location
- Broomfield, Colorado, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $174M raised
- 2013-07-01Seed$3.2M
- 2014-03-01Series A$37.2M
- 2014-12-01Debt Financing$50M
- 2015-07-01Series B$83M
- 2016-04-01Debt Financing$130M
- 2020-05-01Venture Round$50M
- 2021-03-24IPO$775.5M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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