Director of Security Engineering — Engineering-Led Security

Abnormal Security Corp.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Abnormal AI is hiring a Director of Security reporting to the CISO and leading the Security Engineering organization. You will build and scale high-performing security teams, own major security programs end to end, and operate autonomously in the CISO's absence, including representing security to executive leadership, customers, and auditors.

This is a role for a deeply technical leader with a software engineering background who has grown into people leadership, built security teams from the

Qualifications

• Deep technical leadership with a software engineering background.
• Experience building security teams from the ground up.
• Ability to write and review code and architecture when it matters.

Responsibilities

• Serve as deputy to the CISO with full authority in the CISO's absence.
• Lead, coach, and grow managers and senior engineers across Security Engineering and Security Operations.
• Own the security engineering roadmap: cloud security architecture (AWS-first), 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 and data perimeter controls and federal compliance initiatives.
• Set and defend engineering standards for the security organization: everything as code, automated where possible, measured against outcomes.
• Build hiring pipelines and raise the bar on every hire; own performance management, promotion cases.

Job description

Abnormal AI is hiring a Director of Security reporting to the CISO and leading the Security Engineering organization. You will build and scale high-performing security teams, own major security programs end to end, and operate autonomously in the CISO's absence, including representing security to executive leadership, customers, and auditors.

This is a role for a deeply technical leader with a software engineering background who has grown into people leadership, built security teams from the