Senior Engineering Manager, Security Products

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
• Establish and lead sustaining engineering practices, including technical debt reduction and resolving aging tickets
• Collaborate with Product Management and Security Architects to define requirements
• Ensure high standards of code quality, security best practices, and operational excellence
• Manage recruitment, performance reviews, and career development

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• 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
• Expert-level Go and strong JavaScript/Node.js skills
• Experience with distributed systems (consensus, replication, partitioning, consistency)
• Production Apache Flink and advanced Kafka experience
• Deep Kubernetes expertise running security-critical workloads at scale
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, Chef)
• Experience building systems handling millions of events per second

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Knowledge of cryptography and secure communication protocols
• Contributions to open-source security projects

About the Company

DigitalOcean is a cloud provider that aims to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.