Staff Product Security Engineer, Secure Design (Kernel and Virtualization)

What this role involves

DigitalOcean is hiring a Staff Product Security Engineer to own the security risk posture for their virtualization stack. The role involves building threat models, proposing mitigations, and collaborating with engineering teams. Required expertise includes kernel security features and virtualization technologies like Qemu and KVM.

Skills this posting asks for

• kernel security
• qemu
• kvm
• virtualization
• apparmor
• selinux
• landlock
• threat modeling
• system architecture
• vulnerability management
• security best practices
• network architecture
• memory corruption
• privilege escalation
• toctou
• secure design
• defense-in-depth
• mentoring
• automation
• security patterns
• security guidance

Requirements

• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized…