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 setting 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 Principal Engineer, AI/ML Security who is passionate about securing AI systems and operationalizing ML-powered security at cloud scale.In this role, you will join the CISO’s organization and partner closely with Security Data Science and Security leadership teams. You will lead DigitalOcean’s engagement with the external AI security community and serve as our internal expert and escalation point for all AI-related security risk.
What You’ll Do:




Partner with Product Security and Engineering leadership to define how AI security controls are integrated into DigitalOcean’s customer-facing products
Partner with Security Data Science to build and deploy detection strategies, guardrails, and security tooling/automations. Partner with Security Engineering to implement online and batch inference endpoints to serve in-house AI/ML models. Participate in ongoing monitoring of deployed models to detect drift, evaluate performance, and plan and implement improvements alongside model stakeholders.
Adversarial testing / AI red teaming: lead jailbreak, prompt-injection, evasion, poisoning, and model-extraction testing
Lead security reviews of major AI product initiatives from design through launch, providing architectural sign-off and escalation guidance for high-risk decisions.
Threat modeling across the AI lifecycle: data ingestion, training/fine-tuning, evaluation, model serving, RAG, agent frameworks, and post-deployment monitoring
Own and drive DigitalOcean’s AI Security strat

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 DigitalOcean
📍 Bengaluru