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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 by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to join our Audit Logging & Security Visibility team. This team builds the systems that record and surface security-relevant activity across DigitalOcean's cloud platform, so customers and internal teams can detect threats, investigate incidents, and prove compliance — at billions of events a day.
In this role, you will set the technical direction for Audit Logging at DigitalOcean — defining how our event pipelines, SIEM integrations, and security visibility platform evolve over multi-year horizons, and how they intersect with IAM, threat detection, and platform needs. You will be a primary technical voice in cross-org decisions, and you will set the engineering standards the team builds against. If you are a seasoned engineer who wants to combine deep technical expertise with broad organizational impact, this is the role for you.
What you'll do
- Define Platform Architecture: Set the multi-year technical strategy for audit logging, SIEM integration, and security visibility — designing for hyperscale event volumes and the evolving needs of enterprise customers.
- Architect for Cross-Domain Integration: Lead decisions on how audit and telemetry systems intersect with IAM, threat detection, and platform engineering, so signals stay consistent across all of them.
- Own Security Visibility Strategy: Define the long-term architecture for the Unified Security Dashboard and SIEM integrations (Splunk, Datadog, Chronicle, Sentinel) — setting patterns other teams build on, not just shipping one integration at a time.
- Set Sustaining Engineering Standards: Define what logging schema standards, event taxonomy, and operational hygiene look like across the domain, and hold the team accountable to that bar.
- Architect for True Scale: Design systems and data models that handle billions of events per day across multiple regions, with guaranteed delivery — anticipating multi-year growth, not just current load.
- Shape Cross-Org Technical Decisions: Be a key technical voice in design reviews spanning Audit Logging, IAM, Threat Detection, and Platform Engineering. Resolve architectural conflicts early, before they become production incidents.
- Mentor Senior Engineers: Coach engineers on system design, security engineering, and technical communication; act as a multiplier for the team's overall capability.
- Translate Strategy to Leadership: Communicate audit platform strategy and investment rationale to senior leadership, framing decisions in terms of customer trust, compliance risk, and business impact.
What You'll Add to DigitalOcean
- Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience, with real depth in audit logging, security telemetry, SIEM integration, or high-throughput data pipelines — ideally at cloud or enterprise scale.
- Language Expert: Expert-level Go, with strong judgment on gRPC-based service design that other engineers will build against.
- Systems Mastery: Proven ability to design and run high-throughput streaming systems (Kafka, Flink) at scale, with guaranteed delivery, ordering, and multi-region resilience.
- Security Observability: A track record of building security visibility platforms — dashboards, control planes, or SIEM integrations across cloud environments.
- Compliance & Distributed Systems: Solid understanding of audit requirements for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar frameworks; deep expertise in distributed systems that other teams depend on.
- Cloud Native: Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Terraform, SQL, and analytical/columnar data stores at platform scale.
- Communication: Able to drive technical consensus across org boundaries and translate platform strategy into business impact for leadership.
Nice to Have
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, OCSF, or other security telemetry standards.
- Familiarity with threat detection platforms or UEBA systems.
- Experience supporting compliance frameworks (SOC 2, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS) as they intersect with audit and access controls.
- Contributions to open-source security, observability, or data pipeline projects.
*This job is located in Bengaluru, India
JR: 2026-7972
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with a high-growth trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As part of our team, you’ll embody our "Shark" mindset: bold, ambitious, and scrappy. You'll lead with a bias for action and take true ownership of our products, customer success, and team culture.
- We prioritize career development. At DigitalOcean, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will join a community of exceptional talent, collaborating closely with some of the brightest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance and fast-paced organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our talent development team prioritizes your professional development and provides resources to support your growth. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, subject to company policy.
- We care about your well-being. We take a comprehensive approach to our total rewards packages because we know different things drive different people. Our benefits are designed to support you and may include flexible time off, local team meetups, and mental health and well being support. Our benefits philosophy is consistent globally, but specific benefits and eligibility vary by location to reflect local needs and regulations.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. Eligible employees may also receive equity compensation, which may include a new hire equity grant and, in participating countries, the opportunity to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program. Equity awards are subject to approval and the terms of the applicable plan.
- Non-sales roles: In addition to base salary, this role is eligible to participate in DigitalOcean’s annual bonus plan and may be eligible for a new hire equity grant, subject to plan terms and local eligibility. Bonus amounts depend on company and individual performance.
- Sales roles (sales compensation eligible): In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible to earn incentive compensation under the applicable sales compensation plan and may be eligible for a new hire equity grant, subject to plan terms and local eligibility.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.