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Engineering Manager, Platform Security
At a Glance
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Compensation
- or this full-time position is $248,000 to $310,000 + equity + benefits. Our sala
- Posted
- 2026-07-27T17:23:50-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Education
Requirements
3+ years of experience as people manager, having managed a team of 3+ security software engineers
3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
Expert reasoning about the security of complex systems, even if they contain unfamiliar components
Experience building in and securing cloud-based environments (we use GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS)
Experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we use Python, Typescript, and Rust)
Experience developing with agentic AI, and a good grasp of AI security practices
Responsibilities
You’ll shape company-wide security strategy and lead a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team of software engineers who will...
Build and operate identity and access management (IAM) systems for humans and machines that are user-friendly and promote least privilege
Secure first- and third-party software supply chains, from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production
Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure
Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting a high-velocity engineering org with hundreds of developers
Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations