Senior Software Engineer II - Audit & Logging

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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 DigitalOceans 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 youll 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 teams 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 Youll Add to DigitalOcean

• Education: Bachelors or Masters 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 standa…