Senior Technical Program Manager, Product Security

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative•Redwood City, CA

2d•$190,000 - $261,800•Hybrid

About The Position

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is seeking a Technical Program Manager with expertise in Application Security to identify vulnerabilities and implement solutions to eliminate weaknesses at scale. This role goes beyond identifying and fixing vulnerabilities by creating paved roads and secure frameworks to prevent them. The Technical Program Manager will work with developers and engineers across large organizations, providing secure foundations to application and infrastructure teams. This role will shape product and application security to protect scientific and educational innovation at CZI, Biohub, and Learning Commons. You will collaborate with engineers, Product Managers, and Security Professionals, building shared tools and platforms for Research Scientists, Data Scientists, AI Researchers, and Engineers. As part of the Information Security team, your work will directly impact all of CZI’s initiatives by ensuring the security and scalability of the technology solutions that drive the mission forward.

Requirements

5+ years of technical program management or equivalent experience, with a specific focus on security or application security.
Demonstrated proficiency with secure SDLC processes and best practices for integrating security throughout the software development lifecycle.
Hands-on experience designing and managing security controls within CI/CD pipelines, using automation frameworks to enable secure code delivery and rapid remediation.
Familiarity with threat modeling, static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), and software composition analysis (SCA) tools.
Deep understanding of DevSecOps principles, security automation, and infrastructure-as-code security.
Experience driving the adoption of vulnerability management, architectural best practices, and incident response for cloud-native and distributed applications.
Knowledge of container security (Docker, Kubernetes), microservices architectures, and cloud platform security (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Experience leading end-to-end security architecture design and governance across complex, cloud-native, and hybrid enterprise environments, aligning security capabilities to business and risk objectives.
Proven ability to define and maintain reference architectures, security patterns, and control standards spanning network, identity, data protection, and application security domains.
Skilled in conducting architecture risk assessments and design reviews, ensuring new and existing solutions meet zero trust, defense-in-depth, and compliance requirements in regulated industries.

Responsibilities

Conceive, design, develop, and improve industry-leading security tooling, automation, architecture, and/or frameworks that enable enterprise teams at scale to deliver applications and services with appropriate security controls to meet evolving requirements for security and privacy
Identify and eliminate classes of security problems by shifting detection and prevention left into the development workflow
Provide just-in-time, actionable, technical security guidance to enterprise application and service teams
Ensure prioritization, resourcing, and timely delivery of work within a changing business environment
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security work is being prioritized and addressed
Drive end-to-end execution of technical security projects, including requirements gathering, scoping, status updates, and delivery milestones.
Establish and report metrics to track compliance, program health, and ongoing risk posture.
Coordinate with third-party vendors and auditors to augment internal security capabilities
Serve as a subject matter expert on infrastructure, architecture, and application security, offering guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Support security reviews, threat modeling, and incident response efforts for applications and production infrastructure.