Director of Security Engineering

3 weeks ago
Full-time
Executive
DevOps and Infrastructure
Sysdig

Sysdig

Sysdig provides advanced security solutions for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments, enabling organizations to gain visibility and context through runtime insights to proactively prevent cyber attacks.

IT Services
251-1K
Founded 2013
$730M raised

Description

  • Lead a small, high-leverage team of senior and staff security engineers and grow the team through hiring and talent development.
  • Own the security engineering roadmap, standards, budget, and technical direction.
  • Set functional strategy with the CISO and senior leadership and translate security strategy into operational plans and policy.
  • Act as the final decision-maker for security-engineering standards, tooling, and practices.
  • Use an AI-first approach to deliver security capabilities that help engineering build better systems and code.
  • Make AI-assisted development safe across the organization and defend AI agents and production workloads as a first-class attack surface.
  • Partner closely with product teams to shape roadmap decisions and mature cloud defense and AI workload protection capabilities.
  • Represent security with executives and major customers on significant security matters.
  • Drive continuous assurance of controls that support ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and SOC 2 Type II compliance.
  • Champion Sysdig’s values and help build a culture of trust, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • 7 or more years of experience in security or software engineering.
  • 4+ years of experience leading and developing engineers.
  • Experience owning a team’s roadmap, outcomes, and budget.
  • Demonstrated deep partnership with engineering teams.
  • Experience using AI and agentic tooling to deliver security capability.
  • Credibility to engage executives and customers on security matters.
  • Technical foundations in cloud security and Kubernetes security.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and modern CI/CD.
  • A view of compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and SOC 2 Type II as continuous assurance to automate.
  • Familiarity with eBPF and runtime security concepts (preferred).
  • Experience building internal developer platforms or secure paved-road/scaffolding tooling (preferred).
  • Background in promoting AI workloads or shipping AI security capabilities (preferred).
  • A public voice through conference talks, writing, or open-source work is welcomed but not required.

Benefits

  • Extra days off to prioritize your well-being.
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a 3% company match.
  • Maternity and parental leave.
  • Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app.
  • Full health benefits package for you and your family.
  • U.S. annual salary range of $186,000 to $256,000 per year.
  • Remote-friendly role indicated by #LI-Remote.

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