Senior Security Engineering Manager, Enterprise Security

58 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Cybersecurity
Upstart

Upstart

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Description

  • Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for security engineering programs across enterprise security, security operations, and detection engineering.
  • Manage, coach, and develop a team of security professionals, including setting priorities, goals, operating rhythms, and growth opportunities.
  • Build and mature proactive security controls across corporate systems, cloud environments, identity platforms, endpoints, SaaS applications, and security operations workflows.
  • Strengthen detection coverage, alert quality, logging strategy, response playbooks, automation, and operational processes to improve threat detection and response.
  • Drive cross-functional security initiatives with Engineering, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk, and business teams.
  • Establish and report on security engineering and operations metrics, including program health, control effectiveness, response performance, remediation progress, and risk reduction outcomes.
  • Evaluate and improve security tooling, processes, and controls to reduce systemic risk and increase operational efficiency.
  • Identify recurring issues and address root causes to raise the maturity of Upstart’s security programs.
  • Coordinate incident investigation, stakeholder communications, remediation tracking, and post-incident improvement efforts.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in information security, security engineering, enterprise security, security operations, detection and response, incident response, vulnerability management, cloud security, or related domains.
  • 3+ years of experience managing security professionals or leading security engineering programs across multiple teams or stakeholder groups.
  • Experience owning roadmaps, priorities, metrics, and execution for security programs with cross-functional dependencies.
  • Experience building or operating security capabilities in cloud-based and enterprise environments.
  • Working knowledge of common security tooling, logging, monitoring, detection, identity, endpoint, and response practices.
  • Experience leading security incidents or operational security programs, including investigation coordination, stakeholder communications, remediation tracking, and post-incident improvement.
  • Experience partnering with Engineering, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk, or business teams to deliver measurable security outcomes.
  • Experience leading security programs across multiple domains such as enterprise security, security operations, detection engineering, cloud security, identity and access management, endpoint security, vulnerability management, or incident response (preferred).
  • Experience building or improving security programs that emphasize proactive and preventative controls, automation, and early risk reduction over reactive incident response (preferred).
  • Knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD security, endpoint security, IAM, vulnerability management, SIEM/SOAR, logging pipelines, and modern detection engineering practices (preferred).
  • Security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, AWS Security Specialty, or similar credentials (preferred).
  • Remote - US location required; team operates on East/West coast time zones.
  • Ability to collaborate in person for periodic onsites, typically once or twice per quarter for 2-4 consecutive days at a time.

Benefits

  • Anticipated base salary range of $190,600 to $263,900 USD.
  • Target bonuses and annual equity grants.
  • 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan with discounted stock purchase options for eligible US employees.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus wellness resources.
  • Health Savings Account contributions for eligible US plans.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • Paid time off, sick leave, and company holidays.
  • Paid family and parental leave.
  • Family-centered benefits for fertility, parenthood, and caregiving.
  • Employee Assistance Program with mental health support and life resources.
  • Annual wellness allowance and annual productivity allowance.
  • Financial planning tools and financial concierge service for US employees.
  • Onsite perks including catered lunches and fully stocked micro-kitchens at office locations.

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