Top Cybersecurity Jobs in Seattle, WA

Leads DigitalOcean’s security and core platform services portfolio, including security products, security engineering, identity, billing, secrets management, and observability. Owns strategy, roadmap, business outcomes, operational excellence, compliance, and executive reporting. Builds and scales product and engineering organizations, manages investment trade-offs, defines performance metrics, supports incident escalation, and partners cross-functionally to deliver secure, reliable, customer-focused cloud capabilities.

Lead secure design reviews, threat modeling, and security risk assessments for products and features. Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to develop secure architectures, provide remediation guidance, promote security culture through training and mentoring, oversee vulnerability management, and explain security events. Build security tooling, automate secure development practices, and establish architectural patterns and processes that reduce security risk across DigitalOcean’s engineering organization.

Lead DigitalOcean’s AI security strategy, governance framework, threat modeling, and multi-year roadmap. Partner with security, engineering, and data science teams to secure AI products, deploy guardrails, conduct adversarial testing and red teaming, and monitor AI/ML systems. Provide architectural reviews, executive risk briefings, and guidance on emerging threats including prompt injection, model supply-chain risks, agentic AI, and data exfiltration.

Design and build high-availability IAM services in Go at cloud scale. Develop authentication and authorization systems, SSO integrations using OIDC and SAML, policy-engine capabilities, multi-tenant identity models, and secure AI-agent workflows. Own reliability across Kubernetes and event-driven architectures, address security vulnerabilities, and provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

Own the security risk posture for the virtualization stack by building threat models, assessment rubrics, and defenses. Propose and implement mitigations, partner with engineering teams to drive remediations, mentor engineers on secure practices, and help oversee vulnerability management and security guidance.

Design, build, and maintain security products and infrastructure: real-time detection engines (Flink/Kafka), high-performance APIs (Go/Node.js), streaming analytics, Kubernetes at hyperscale, and petabyte-scale data pipelines. Lead technical designs, collaborate with security teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Assess product and application architectures, develop threat models, identify security risks, and guide engineering teams on remediation. Promote security culture through training, mentoring, vulnerability management, and internal security initiatives. Build security tooling, automation, patterns, and workflows that embed secure-by-design practices across engineering. Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to secure complex, large-scale cloud systems.

Lead assessment and mitigation of security risks in the virtualization stack. Build threat models, rubrics, and defenses; partner with kernel, virtualization, and provisioning teams to design and implement mitigations; mentor engineers, manage vulnerability backlog, and promote security best practices across product teams.