Senior Security Analyst I

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We are looking for a highly experienced and motivated Senior Security Analyst who is passionate about advanced security monitoring, detection engineering, threat hunting, and maturing Insider Threat programs.

As a Senior Security Analyst at DigitalOcean reporting to the Manager, Security Defense Engineering, you will lead and own critical aspects of our insider threat program, shaping how we detect, respond to, and prevent internal risks and malicious threats.

You will leverage deep expertise to engineer sophisticated detection capabilities, develop metrics to measure program effectiveness, and drive continuous improvement across alerting and response functions.

You will collaborate closely with DFIR, Threat Intelligence, HR, Legal and other cross-functional teams to close detection gaps and elevate the organization’s overall security posture.

• Own and evolve the insider threat program strategy, ensuring alignment with evolving threat landscapes, privacy considerations, and business priorities.
• Advise on and implement preventative controls, balancing risk reduction against user friction for engineers.
• Engineer and automate end-to-end insider-threat detection and investigation workflows across DigitalOcean's cloud and corporate environments.
• Build, measure, and tune detection content and risk-scoring logic on UEBA / SIEM / DLP / UAM platforms; reduce false positives while keeping coverage sustainable.
• Work closely with Infrastructure Security Engineers to identify log sources, integrate, and maintain data pipelines (e.g., log sources, forwarders, parsing, enrichment) feeding insider-risk analytics.
• Develop a use-case library with corresponding playbooks and escalation procedures.
• Investigate anomalous activity (e.g., access abuse, data exfiltration, IP/source-code theft, including novel risks in AI/GPU infrastructure) and provide technical evidence to support cases.