Senior Manager - Information Security

What Are We Looking For?

Contentstack is looking for a Senior Security Engineering Manager who is technically hands-on, innovative, driven by results, people oriented and passionate about teaching secure coding practices. This role requires exceptional team-building and mentorship abilities to elevate our security engineering function.

Ultimately, you’ll make sure we are properly assessing software and cloud risk and vulnerabilities, develop processes that maximize our productivity, and help ensure software and data security as our company grows. Trust and Security lie at the core of what we do. This role will be a strong advocate for ensuring we meet our own high expectations. The ability to drive and embed security as a foundational value across multiple engineering teams is paramount to success in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Contentstack is an AI-forward company, and we expect all candidates to bring practical experience using AI tools and technologies as a core part of how they work, learn, and drive impact. Lead, mentor, and strategically develop a high-performing security engineering team. Define clear career progression paths and coach team members to achieve their maximum potential, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
• Drive operational success within the application and cloud security teams to ensure we are meeting department, company, and personal goals.
• Help provide training and education to the engineering teams on best practices. You will identify areas of opportunity for the teams to learn, help create educational materials, and give presentations to the teams.
• Champion and drive the adoption of Secure by Design and Shift Left principles across all engineering and product teams. This requires strong influence and cross-functional leadership to embed security best practices early and consistently throughout the SDLC.
• Assist in developing and executing on roadmaps to significantly elevate the security maturity of the engineering and product organizations, leveraging industry benchmarks (CIS, OWASP, NIST, NIST AI RMF) to measure progress and advocate for necessary investments and alignment.
• Ensure that AI coding practices are being done in a secure manner and that proper protections are in place throughout the SDLC.
• Assist in review of penetration tests and aid teams in remediation of issues. 

Required Skills

• Experience working in an AI-forward environment, with demonstrated ability to use AI tools and technologies as a core part of day-to-day work, problem-solving, and continuous learning.
• Expertise in Cloud Native & Microservice based secure product development
• Hands-on experience in designing and securing complex systems across multiple cloud environments.
• Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to grow and mentor members of the team and confidently represent security goals to all levels of the business.
• Strong grasp of scalable web back-end, streaming, full stack development, good experience in handling production and performance issues and all genres of platforms technologies
• Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex web/desktop based systems
• Experience hiring and growing a top notch engineering team and scaling the organization. Start-up experience will be highly preferred
• Strong problem solving skills and the ability to work and coordinate with teams across multiple time zones

Experience: 12 to 17 years

Location: Bangalore