Engineering Manager, Secure Development Engineering

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2d•$212,000 - $265,000•Remote

About The Position

The Information Security org plays a critical role in maintaining and building our community’s trust in our platform that enables millions of users to explore the world and belong anywhere. The Secure Software Development Engineering team is dedicated to ensuring the security and protection of the data of millions of users on our platform as they explore the world.

Requirements

3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing a software engineering team and 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment.
Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
Strong product and design instinct, previous proven experience building delightfully designed experiences.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners.
Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depending on the situation.
Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact, shipping or running security software engineering or infrastructure products that software engineering teams integrate with and depend on.
Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability and availability.

Responsibilities

Own the roadmap for a portfolio of security products spanning secure SDLC, vulnerability management, infrastructure security, and platform identity, with real dependencies on partner orgs.
Drive product thinking: who the user is, what adoption looks like, what gets deprecated. A security product only counts when engineers choose to use it.
Find the next problem before it finds you. Spot gaps in the company's security posture, shape them into work the team can own, and bring the case to leadership rather than waiting for it to be assigned.
Turn engineering progress into a story leadership can act on. Progress, so-what, dates, and the ask.
Resolve ownership questions between teams before they become conflict. Platform identity, agentic identity, and infrastructure policy are live seams.
Grow senior and Staff engineers through sponsorship, not supervision. Hiring, promotion cases, coaching.