Security Engineering Manager: Detection & Response Lead

Snap Inc.; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive medical coverage

Mental health support programs

Long-term compensation plan

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead the Detection & Response team. You’ll own high-impact security initiatives, ensure robust monitoring tooling, and guide incident triage and response across the company’s environments.

The role requires deep expertise in detection, forensics, and incident management, plus strong software development in Python/Go/Java and cloud competencies across AWS/GCP. You’ll mentor engineers and align security work with Snap’s strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent years of experience in a related technical field.
• 8+ years of post-bachelor’s industry experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ years of post-grad security experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 4 years of post-grad security experience.
• 1+ year(s) of experience as an Engineering Manager.
• Proven experience in detection and response areas: digital forensics, malware analysis, incident management, host/network intrusion detection, threat intelligence.
• Development skills in Python, Go, and/or Java.
• Advanced knowledge of OS internals; core competency in two or more: macOS, Windows, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities and assume direct ownership of multi-year, high-impact initiatives which scale our security monitoring efforts in a cost effective manner.
• Ensure that security monitoring infrastructure, investigation tooling, and automation systems we build consistently demonstrate high technical quality and operational excellence.
• Make judicious prioritization decisions that balance short term goals vs. long term security outcomes, team productivity, operational posture, and system health.
• Directly participate in D&R operations, investigate events generated by the alerting pipeline and triage potential incidents.
• Work closely with multiple Snap Inc. teams during security incidents and drive response efforts.
• Align the team’s direction with the strategic goals of the organization and participate in quarterly/annual planning exercises.
• Facilitate effective collaboration across different stakeholders, dependencies and cross-organizational partners.
• Invest in your team members’ career growth, use effective performance management tools, and build mechanisms to delegate execution and ensure excellence.
• Recruit high caliber engineers to your team and build an engaging, collaborative, and productive team which positively influences the culture of the broader organization.

Skills

Security

Incident mgmt

Detection

Threat intel

Python

Go

Java

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

OS internals

Cloud security

Education

BSc/BS in CS or Engineering

MS in technical field

PhD in technical field

Tools

Python

Go

Java

macOS

Windows

Linux

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Snap Inc. is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead the Detection & Response team. You’ll own high-impact security initiatives, ensure robust monitoring tooling, and guide incident triage and response across the company’s environments.

The role requires deep expertise in detection, forensics, and incident management, plus strong software development in Python/Go/Java and cloud competencies across AWS/GCP. You’ll mentor engineers and align security work with Snap’s strategic goals.