Director of Security Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $214.2k - $308k / year

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Abnormal Security

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501 - 1000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

Abnormal Security is a provider of cloud-native email security solutions that specializes in preventing a wide array of cyber threats. The company focuses on protecting businesses from attacks such as phishing, malware, ransomware, and social engineering, ensuring total protection for corporate email systems. Their offerings include business email security, phishing detection, and securing against account takeovers, making them a leader in the computer and network security space.

📋 Description

• Serve as deputy to the CISO and act with full authority in the CISO's absence • Represent the security organization to executives, customers, and regulators • Lead, coach, and grow managers and senior engineers across Security Engineering and Security Operations • Own the security engineering roadmap covering AWS-first cloud security architecture, detection and response, identity, vulnerability management, and secure-by-default platform investments • Drive cross-functional programs with Engineering, IT, and Product, including AI security governance, data perimeter controls, and federal compliance initiatives • Set and defend engineering standards for the security organization, emphasizing everything as code, automation, and outcome measurement • Build hiring pipelines and raise hiring standards • Own performance management, promotion cases, and succession planning • Translate technical risk into business terms for executives and the board • Translate business priorities into a coherent security strategy

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in security or software engineering • 4+ years managing security teams • Experience managing managers of managers or equivalent scope, ideally • Genuine software engineering background with production software delivery experience • Proven record of building and scaling high-performing security teams • Deep technical fluency in AWS organizations and multi-account governance, Kubernetes, identity and access, detection engineering, and modern SDLC security • Demonstrated cross-functional leadership with engineering leaders • Strong written communication and ability to drive alignment asynchronously • Executive presence and ability to present to C-level leadership, customers, and auditors • Experience with paved-path or secure-by-default platforms, ideally • Experience with FedRAMP, SOC 2, or ISO 27001 compliance-driven environments, ideally • Experience securing AI/ML systems or governing AI adoption at scale, ideally • Experience operating where security headcount was scarce and automation was necessary to scale, ideally

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus or incentive compensation eligibility • Equity eligibility • Comprehensive benefits package • Pre-employment checks in line with prevailing legislation and Abnormal AI policies