Product Security Manager, Secure Design

We’re looking for a security manager passionate about enabling the business as a security partner to lead a team of Product Security engineers.

You will manage a team of product security engineers dedicated to enabling DigitalOcean to build secure-by-design products, reporting to the Senior Manager of Product Security. Your primary mission is to empower this team to succeed - ensuring they have the strategy, support, and cross-functional relationships necessary to solve complex security problems at scale.

You will partner with product and engineering leadership to assess risk, scale security impact via automation, and foster a culture where security is a paved path for developer success. We leverage strong relationships with both product teams and the rest of security engineering to be successful. Our scope is primarily focused on reviewing early-stage decisions, helping develop threat models, scaling impact via automation, curating security patterns, authoring security guidance, training, and championing security initiatives.

What You’ll Do:

Lead and grow the team

• You will manage, mentor, and hire for an expanding team of 5+ security engineers.
• You will support team members’ career growth, manage performance, ensure the team maintains a high bar for technical empathy and execution, and focus on coaching them to be effective security partners, not just technical auditors.

Scale secure design

• While your team conducts the threat modeling and design reviews, your role is to clear the path for them to do so efficiently.
• You will actively engage in the review process to ensure a high bar of technical rigor and consistency across the team.
• You will identify bottlenecks in the engagement process and drive the strategy to scale impact via automation and process improvement.

Build bridges, not walls

• You will cultivate strong relationships with product management and engineering leadership.
• You will ensure your team is viewed as empathetic partners who help engineers make informed decisions, rather than adversaries who list problems.

Foster a security culture

• You will support your team in championing security initiatives (such as internal CTFs and training) that raise the bar for the entire organization.

Strategic prioritization

• You will help your team navigate the trade-offs between functional product goals and security requirements.
• You will protect their time by prioritizing high-impact work over low-risk noise.

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

Experienced management

• You have 2+ years of experience leading a team of security engineers.
• You are comfortable stepping into a role with 3-5 direct reports and have a track record of elevating senior talent and keeping them engaged and unblocked.

Servant leadership

• You measure your own success by the success of your team.
• You have a track record of defining clear priorities to reduce context switching, clearing operational paths so your engineers can focus on technical execution, and ensuring they receive visibility and credit for their work.

Technical context

• You possess a deep background in Product Security, Application Security, or Secure Architecture.
• You lead with technical credibility, having the ability to deep-dive into threat modeling architectural discussions and provide meaningful feedback on complex security problems.
• DigitalOcean teams primarily build “under the cloud” (i.e. in data centers) providing the building blocks that operate a cloud product for our customers. You should be able to translate security expectations for cloud customers into underlying principles that must be embedded inside our product architectures and designs to ensure our products are safe for our customers, our business, and for the wider Internet.

Empathy & communication

• You translate complex security risks (e.g. RetBleed, React2Shell) into business context for leadership, and you teach your team to communicate with empathy.

Compensation Range: 

• $181,600.00 - $227,000

*This is a remote role

JR: 2026-7429

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