<div class="content-intro"><p>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. </p></div><p>We are seeking a <strong>Senior Software Engineer II</strong> to join our <strong>Audit Logging & Security Visibility</strong> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2><strong>What you'll do</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Define Platform Architecture:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Architect for Cross-Domain Integration:</strong> Lead decisions on how audit and telemetry systems intersect with IAM, threat detection, and platform engineering, so signals stay consistent across all of them.</li> <li><strong>Own Security Visibility Strategy:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Set Sustaining Engineering Standards:</strong> Define what logging schema standards, event taxonomy, and operational hygiene look like across the domain, and hold the team accountable to that bar.</li> <li><strong>Architect for True Scale:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Shape Cross-Org Technical Decisions:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Mentor Senior Engineers:</strong> Coach engineers on system design, security engineering, and technical communication; act as a multiplier for the team's overall capability.</li> <li><strong>Translate Strategy to Leadership:</strong> Communicate audit platform strategy and investment rationale to senior leadership, framing decisions in terms of customer trust, compliance risk, and business impact.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What You'll Add to DigitalOcean</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Education:</strong> Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.</li> <li><strong>Experience:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Language Expert:</strong> Expert-level <strong>Go</strong>, with strong judgment on gRPC-based service design that other engineers will build against.</li> <li><strong>Systems Mastery:</strong> Proven ability to design and run high-throughput streaming systems (Kafka, Flink) at scale, with guaranteed delivery, ordering, and multi-region resilience.</li> <li><strong>Security Observability:</strong> A track record of building security visibility platforms — dashboards, control planes, or SIEM integrations across cloud environments.</li> <li><strong>Compliance & Distributed Systems:</strong> Solid understanding of audit requirements for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar frameworks; deep expertise in distributed systems that other teams depend on.</li> <li><strong>Cloud Native:</strong> Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Terraform, SQL, and analytical/columnar data stores at platform scale.</li> <li><strong>Communication:</strong> Able to drive technical consensus across org boundaries and translate platform strategy into business impact for leadership.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Nice to Have</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Experience with OpenTelemetry, OCSF, or other security telemetry standards.</li> <li>Familiarity with threat detection platforms or UEBA systems.</li> <li>Experience supporting compliance frameworks (SOC 2, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS) as they intersect with audit and access controls.</li> <li>Contributions to open-source security, observability, or data pipeline projects.</li> </ul> <p class="p1"><span style="color: rgb(0,