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 looking for a visionary Director of Engineering to lead and scale our Security Products engineering organization in India. In this role, you will own the end-to-end engineering strategy and execution for our security product portfolio, protecting millions of customers globally. You will build and lead multiple high-performing teams, shape the technical direction of our security platform, and partner closely with senior product, design, and business leadership to drive DigitalOcean's security vision forward.
- Define and own the multi-year engineering strategy and roadmap for Security Products in India, aligning closely with global security and product leadership.
- Lead, grow, and inspire a multi-team engineering organization spanning threat detection, identity management, data protection, and security infrastructure.
- Partner with VP-level and C-suite stakeholders across Product, Security Architecture, and GTM to translate business priorities into executable technical plans.
- Drive organizational design, headcount planning, and talent strategy to scale the India engineering function in support of global security goals.
- Establish engineering excellence across teams — including coding standards, architectural reviews, incident management, and operational health benchmarks.
- Champion a culture of security-first thinking, proactive risk management, and continuous improvement across the full development lifecycle.
- Lead sustaining engineering strategy: own technical debt reduction programs, aging ticket resolution, and long-term platform health.
- Manage delivery accountability across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring on-time preview and GA launches with proactive mitigation of cross-team dependencies and risks.
- Recruit, retain, and develop senior engineering talent; drive performance management, career frameworks, and succession planning for the India org.
- Represent the India engineering organization in global leadership forums; act as the primary escalation point for security product engineering decisions.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 6+ years in senior engineering leadership or management roles, including managing managers.
- Demonstrated track record of building and scaling engineering organizations (50+ engineers) delivering complex, cloud-scale security products or distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in security protocols, cryptography, identity management, and modern application security architecture.
- Proven ability to influence and align senior cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Legal, Security, Finance) in a global organizational structure.
- 8+ years of experience building products at security companies or within security-focused engineering functions.
- Strong technical fluency in Go and JavaScript/Node.js; ability to engage credibly in architecture and design reviews.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems at scale: consensus, replication, partitioning, and consistency.
- Production experience with Apache Flink and advanced Kafka for high-volume event stream processing.
- Deep Kubernetes expertise running security-critical workloads at scale.
- Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) with strong command of cloud security models; Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform, Helm, Chef).
- Experience building and overseeing systems handling millions of events per second.
- Broad familiarity with the security tooling landscape (SIEM, WAF, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanners, CSPM).
- Exceptional communication, executive presence, and the ability to operate effectively across time zones in a globally distributed company.
- Track record of operating with high ownership and bias for action in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
- Experience architecting large-scale distributed systems and microservices platforms.
- Deep expertise in cryptography and secure communication protocols.
- Contributions to open-source security projects or active participation in the broader security research community.
- Experience leading engineering through hypergrowth or significant organizational transformation..
- This job is located in Bengaluru, India
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- We innovate with purpose. You'll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you'll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
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.
