Principal Engineer - Security Products, Security Visibility

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for Audit Logging, SIEM Integration, and Unified Security Visibility
• Architect fault-tolerant, high-throughput audit and telemetry pipelines in Go
• Design the Unified Security Dashboard and control plane to aggregate signals from threat detection, IAM, and network security
• Deliver integrations with leading SIEM platforms like Splunk, Datadog, and Chronicle
• Lead the redesign of audit log infrastructure to support immutable, compliance-grade event records
• Partner with cross-functional teams including IAM, Threat Detection, and Platform Engineering
• Establish logging schema standards, event taxonomy, and observability engineering practices
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and conduct deep code reviews

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering expertise
• 4+ years dedicated to audit logging, security telemetry, or high-throughput data pipelines
• Expert proficiency in Go and gRPC-based microservices
• Deep knowledge of Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, or similar stream processing frameworks
• Proven history developing security visibility platforms or SIEM integrations
• Understanding of compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, and PCI-DSS
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, SQL (MySQL), and columnar data stores
• Experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional platform initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OpenTelemetry or OCSF
• Familiarity with threat detection platforms or UEBA systems
• Experience building customer-facing security dashboards or compliance reporting tools
• Contributions to open-source security or observability projects

About the Company

DigitalOcean is a cloud provider focused on simplifying cloud and AI for builders, providing scalable infrastructure for developers and small-to-medium businesses worldwide.