Senior Manager, Security Products
$200,800–$251,000 year
Hybrid · Seattle, Washington, United States or Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Senior Manager, Security Products leads a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver scalable security features and products. Responsible for technical roadmap and timely delivery of security capabilities (threat detection, identity management, data protection), managing delivery timelines and risks, sustaining engineering practices, defining product requirements with PM and Security Architects, ensuring code quality and security best practices, and overseeing recruitment and career development for the team. Requires extensive software engineering experience (10+ years) with leadership, strong Go and JavaScript/Node.js skills, expertise in security protocols and cloud security, experience with distributed systems and high-throughput data processing, and experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and security tooling. This is a hybrid role based in Seattle or Boston, with a compensation range of $200,800 - $251,000, and offers potential for bonuses and equity; the company emphasizes growth, well-being, and professional development.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4+ years in a senior leadership or management role
- Proven track record of delivering complex security products or cloud-scale distributed systems
- Deep understanding of security protocols, cryptography, and modern web application security
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills within a global organizational structure
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant exposure to building products at security companies or within security functions
- Expert-level Go and strong JavaScript/Node.js skills
- Proven track record of designing and implementing high-throughput, scalable systems with large data requirements
- Deep understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, and consistency - Production Apache Flink and advanced Kafka experience processing high-volume event streams
- Deep Kubernetes expertise running security-critical workloads at scale
- Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) with understanding of cloud security models, infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform, Helm, Chef)
- Experience building systems handling millions of events per second
- Familiarity with various security tools and technologies (e.g., SIEM, WAF, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanners)
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and rapidly evolving environment
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