Senior Software Engineering Manager, Product Security

Whoop • Boston, MA

82d

About The Position

At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance and healthspan. WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level and live longer through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. Protecting our members' data and ensuring our systems scale securely and reliably is core to this mission. As a Senior Software Engineering Manager at WHOOP, you will play a critical leadership role as part of our cross-functional Platform organization. You will build, lead, and grow multiple teams responsible for protecting the security and privacy of our members by driving secure development practices, managing product-facing security programs, and building scalable security solutions. In addition to core product security responsibilities, you will be responsible for collaborating closely with cross-functional partners across Product, Software, Legal, and Compliance to achieve and maintain HIPAA compliance across WHOOP's products and infrastructure. We are seeking a leader with prior experience helping an organization transition into HIPAA-compliant standards, capable of aligning technical execution with regulatory and business objectives. On the people management side, you will manage and mentor a team of engineers, provide regular performance feedback, and ensure professional development and growth. You will work to foster a culture of innovation, teamwork, psychological safety, and continuous learning. You are responsible for promoting a positive work environment where all team members feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a technical leader managing multiple teams or a growing security engineering organization.
• Experience growing high level individual contributor career growth at the staff level or higher.
• Demonstrated success leading security or compliance initiatives in a regulated environment, preferably HIPAA or other health data compliance frameworks.
• Deep understanding of product security principles, including vulnerability management, data privacy, threat modeling, and secure software development.
• Experience building or integrating developer security tooling to improve secure-by-default practices.
• Strong technical background in software development, testing, and deployment processes.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills with the ability to influence across teams and levels.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AWS cloud environments and data-driven decision-making.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure and cloud security in containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Background in incident response and post-mortem analysis for security events.
• Familiarity with automation frameworks for vulnerability scanning, compliance checks, or infrastructure security.
• Prior experience scaling a product security or compliance engineering organization through major regulatory transitions (e.g., SOC 2 → HIPAA, or HIPAA → HITRUST).

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and grow multiple engineering teams executing on WHOOP's product security strategy, including member authentication, vulnerability management, cloud governance, privacy rights fulfillment, and threat modeling.
• Oversee and drive WHOOP's engineering readiness for HIPAA compliance, coordinating technical implementation, evidence collection, and ongoing governance activities across teams.
• Define and communicate long-term security strategy, architecture, and design principles for product-facing systems.
• Partner with engineering and compliance leadership to embed security and privacy by design across the software development lifecycle.
• Establish and enforce best practices, standards, and processes for secure software development, testing, and deployment.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance team productivity, quality, and overall business impact.
• Provide mentorship, guidance, and career development for engineering managers and individual contributors.
• Foster a culture of innovation, teamwork, psychological safety, and continuous learning within the Product Security organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees