Security Analyst
Have you ever wondered what happens inside the cloud?
DigitalOcean’s software engineers develop next-generation cloud infrastructure technology that will change how millions of developers build, deploy, and scale web applications. Our mission is to simplify cloud infrastructure; this requires knowledge in many different fields, from distributed systems, virtualization, software defined networking, storage at scale, real-time data processing, and user interface design.
As a Security Analyst, you’ll be joining an existing security team of talented engineers. You will learn how to instrument a network, learn how to identify bad in our environment, and build your own tools and detections. Our customers trust us with their data and operations, and we take that responsibility seriously.
What You’ll Be Working On:- Monitoring security tools and systems for suspicious activity.
- Investigating suspicious activity and determining escalation paths.
- Designing analytics capable of identifying anomalous activity relevant to DigitalOcean’s environment.
- Developing new tools and instrumentation to create new detections or automations within our environment.
- Experiment with different domains of information security (e.g. investigations, engineering, appsec).
- Work closely with all teams at DigitalOcean to improve our security.
- Identify and implement mechanisms to automate security operations.
- Strong work ethic, desire to be challenged, and desire to learn.
- Able to operate in a highly social and collaborative workplace.
- Technically proficient in linux, and networking.
- Experience monitoring instrumentation to identify anomalous behavior.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- A passion for staying ahead of Information Security developments and threat landscapes.
- Able to be local to New York City
- Because we have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and coolest people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. Archery classes, DJ lessons, and office pie fights are a thing. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
- Because we value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
- Because we care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to keep you fit, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
- Because we invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- Because we want you to love where you work. We have a great office space located in the heart of SoHo NYC and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to take an all-expense-paid trip to our HQ to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in HQ.
- Because we value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.