Senior Engineering Manager, Security Products

DigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company focused on simplifying cloud and AI solutions. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead their Security Products engineering team, responsible for developing and delivering 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