Lead Security Engineer

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity.

Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

Join our Cloud & Infrastructure Security team as a Technical Leader to define the strategy, lead the programs, deliver automation, and drive the overall security design for Docusign's cloud and infrastructure environment. In this high-impact role, you will partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security operations, cloud security & vulnerability management teams to mitigate potential exposure, driving consensus and influencing partners and leadership to ensure our security controls are scalable and align with the secure cloud posture.

Your hands-on technical contributions will include operating discovery tools, analyzing findings, validating results, prioritizing remediation, and scripting automations.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Cloud & Infrastructure Security.

• Provide strategic and technical leadership for the Cloud Security and Infrastructure vulnerability program(s), partnering with stakeholders across the company

• Own the vision, develop the strategy, and execute on the plan to operate the program at scale, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals

• Analyze public and private vulnerability disclosures and exploit code, deeply understanding and assessing the technical details and potential impact across Docusign’s infrastructure, services, and applications

• Investigate, triage, and prioritize vulnerabilities, identifying severity and scope of potential impact, and supporting response and remediation efforts with engineering teams

• Establish technical security baselines and best practices for cloud and infrastructure components, leveraging industry standards (e.g., Azure Security Benchmarks, CIS Benchmarks) to measure compliance and drive remediation for non‑compliant drift

• Design, implement, and maintain automation, tools, and workflows to enhance operational capabilities and efficiency

• Identify and deploy discovery scans with accurate scope, ensuring efficacy, freshness, and deduplication of data, and integrate results with existing reporting mechanisms

• Develop and maintain scripts and code (Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, SQL, etc.) for ETL, enrichment, evidence capture, and automation of external scanning processes

• Develop and refine OKRs for Surface Coverage areas, and represent the initiative with executive leadership, providing clear metrics and progress updates

• Contribute to runbooks, playbooks, and “how to” documentation, and assist with surge response for high‑risk exposures

• Participate in a global on‑call rotation to ensure continuous monitoring and rapid remediation of vulnerabilities, supporting a 24/7 security posture

• Mentor and support the development of team members

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in‑office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in‑office expectation)

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• 12+ years of industry experience in Cloud and…