DigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company focused on simplifying cloud services. They are seeking a Senior Manager for their Security Products engineering team to lead the development and delivery of innovative security solutions that protect global customers.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary engineering team focused on building scalable security products
- Drive the technical roadmap and execution for security features, including threat detection, identity management, and data protection
- Manage delivery timelines, inter-team dependencies, and proactive risk mitigation to ensure successful on-time execution of product milestones (e.g., preview and GA launches)
- Establish and lead sustaining engineering practices, including prioritizing technical debt reduction, resolving aging tickets, and ensuring comprehensive security rule and feature coverage
- Collaborate with Product Management and Security Architects to define product requirements and technical specifications
- Ensure high standards of code quality, security best practices, and operational excellence across the development lifecycle
- Manage recruitment, performance reviews, and career development for the engineering team
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4+ years in a senior leadership or management role
- Proven track record of delivering complex security products or cloud-scale distributed systems
- Deep understanding of security protocols, cryptography, and modern web application security
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills within a global organizational structure
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant exposure to building products at security companies or within security functions
- Expert-level Go and strong JavaScript/Node.js skills
- Proven track record of designing and implementing high-throughput, scalable systems with large data requirements
- Deep understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, and consistency - Production Apache Flink and advanced Kafka experience processing high-volume event streams
- Deep Kubernetes expertise running security-critical workloads at scale
- Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) with understanding of cloud security models, infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform, Helm, Chef)
- Experience building systems handling millions of events per second
- Familiarity with various security tools and technologies (e.g., SIEM, WAF, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanners)
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and rapidly evolving environment
- Experience with distributed systems and microservices architectures
- Knowledge of cryptography and secure communication protocols
- Contributions to open-source security projects