Engineering Manager, Platform Security

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 248,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

the company seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers in securing the company’s platforms used by millions of users. You will shape security strategy, own technically complex projects, and drive improvements across IAM, supply chains, and cloud infrastructure.

This role emphasizes people leadership, roadmap ownership, and collaboration with security and engineering teams to reduce risk while enabling rapid innovation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of people management experience leading a security software engineering team.
• Experience securing systems with millions of users.
• Ability to write roadmaps and balance security with business needs.
• Experience building in and securing cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Cloudflare).
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, and Rust; AI security practices are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Shape company-wide security strategy with a highly autonomous team.
• Build and operate IAM systems for humans and machines with least privilege.
• Secure software supply chains from development to production.
• Develop secure baselines for cloud infrastructure.
• Manage vulnerabilities to support a high-velocity engineering org.
• Advise on risk assessments, architectures, threat models, and code reviews.

Skills

IAM systems

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Code reviews

AI security

People management

Roadmap writing

Security for large-scale systems

Python

TypeScript

Rust

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Spacelift

Buildkite

GCP

AWS

Cloudflare

Job description

the company has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. the company plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

the company is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on the company each month. the company plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

More broadly, the company is about empowering people to find belonging in all kinds of communities, and those people trust us to keep their communications safe. Our Platform Security Engineering team protects the systems we use to create the company, making the “secure way” the “easy way.”

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers in articulating and pursuing the most leveraged opportunities to reduce security risk across Engineering. This team will design and build lovable “paved paths” for managing identities and access, shipping code, configuring cloud infrastructure, and operating services. If you’re an Engineering Manager who’s deeply curious, eager to own technically and socially complex projects, and excited to improve security and privacy at the company, read on!

What you’ll do

You’ll shape company-wide security strategy and lead a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team of software engineers who will…

• Build and operate identity and access management (IAM) systems for humans and machines that are user-friendly and promote least privilege
• Secure first-and third-party software supply chains, from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production
• Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure
• Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting a high-velocity engineering org with hundreds of developers
• Consult on risk assessments, architectural designs, threat models, code reviews, and more—pragmatically balancing security with other business considerations

What we look for

• 3+ years of experience as people manager, having managed a team of 3+ security software engineers
• Passion for creating diverse and inclusive teams and coaching engineers
• Comfort with writing the roadmap, not just following one
• 3+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
• Expert reasoning about the security of complex systems, even if they contain unfamiliar components
• Experience building in and securing cloud-based environments (we use GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS)
• Experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we use Python, Typescript, and Rust)
• Experience developing with agentic AI, and a good grasp of AI security practices

Bonus points if you have…

• Understanding of modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g. RBAC, OAuth, Zero Trust network architectures, mTLS)
• Familiarity with build and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite, Spacelift)
• Experience defining and orchestrating containers (e.g. via Kubernetes, Docker, Distroless, OCI) and serverless workloads (e.g. Cloudflare Workers)
• Experience with running and operationalizing security platforms such as Wiz

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000 to $310,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Why the company?

the company plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank.

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