Senior Manager, Security Engineering

Accountabilities:

• Lead one or more Security Engineering teams through managers, team leads, and individual contributors, establishing clear vision, priorities, operating rhythms, and accountability.
• Build and develop high-performing engineering organizations by recruiting, coaching, retaining, and mentoring managers and engineers while creating succession and career development plans.
• Define and execute multi-year Security Engineering strategies and roadmaps aligned with business priorities, enterprise security objectives, technology strategy, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide strategic oversight of enterprise security platforms supporting identity, cloud, application, endpoint, data protection, and security operations capabilities.
• Guide security architecture, platform integrations, technical standards, engineering practices, and technology decisions across multiple organizations.
• Champion automation and engineering-driven security controls that reduce manual effort, improve operational effectiveness, and enable security at scale.
• Lead technology evaluations, strategic vendor relationships, portfolio decisions, and build-versus-buy assessments.
• Direct complex, large-scale initiatives involving multiple engineering teams, business stakeholders, and external partners.
• Establish strong operational practices, including service ownership, reliability objectives, KPIs, reporting, and continuous improvement programs.
• Ensure security engineering capabilities effectively support regulatory, customer, and internal security requirements.
• Communicate security strategy, risk, progress, priorities, and investment needs to senior and executive leadership.
• Manage budgets, resource allocation, and investment priorities while ensuring security initiatives deliver meaningful organizational outcomes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience leading multiple engineering teams, including experience managing and developing engineering managers.
• Strong background in Security Engineering, security platforms, and technical architecture, with demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production systems at scale.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence technology strategy across large and multifaceted organizations.
• Strong experience with coding, system integration, automation, and enterprise security technology implementation.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures and modern security platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to drive organizational transformation, operational maturity, and metrics-driven engineering practices.
• Experience managing technology portfolios, large-scale vendor relationships, budgets, and strategic investments.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional influencing skills.
• Ability to balance competing business and security priorities and make effective risk-based decisions in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
• Experience in one or more areas including Identity and Access Management, Cloud Security, Application Security, Platform Security, or Security Systems Engineering is highly valued.
• Experience supporting rapidly growing SaaS or cloud-native organizations and/or globally distributed engineering teams is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of security frameworks and practices such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and Zero Trust architectures is preferred.
• Security certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, or equivalent are advantageous.
• Experience supporting AI, data governance, and cloud transformation initiatives is a plus.
• Candidates should be comfortable participating in video interviews with cameras on; reasonable accommodations may be available for technical, bandwidth, accessibility, or other specific needs.

Benefits:

• Base salary range of $137,000–$222,000 USD annually, depending on skills, experience, location, and job level.
• Variable incentive compensation and new-hire equity grants.
• Equity opportunities available to employees.
• Flexible time off and paid volunteer days.
• 401(k) match.
• Comprehensive benefits covering medical, mental health, dental, disability, life and AD&D, and additional value-added services.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with mental health support.
• Fertility support and paid parental leave.
• Training, learning, and career development programs.
• Inclusive and collaborative work environment with a strong focus on diversity, accessibility, and employee growth.
• Background checks are required for the position, and certain roles may be subject to U.S. export control authorization requirements.