Global Security Remediation Lead

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 134,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Security Remediation Manager in San Jose to own the end-to-end remediation of security issues across incidents, vulnerability management, and other programs. You will partner with security domain teams, engineering, and IT to drive priority-driven remediation with clear actions, ownership, and timelines.

You will develop and maintain dashboards, metrics, and executive-level reporting to track progress, ensure timely closure, and demonstrate measurable risk reduction based on

Qualifications

• Experience managing security findings or remediation programs across multiple technical teams.
• Strong understanding of common security risks across cloud, infrastructure, identity, endpoints, applications, and vulnerabilities.
• Proven ability to drive complex cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to prioritize issues based on risk and business impact.
• Experience developing security metrics, dashboards, or executive-level reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical security risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage security issues identified across multiple sources, including security incidents, vulnerability management, penetration testing, risk assessments, insider risk, and other security programs.
• Establish, customize, and maintain centralized issue tracking and remediation management systems, and continuously enhance automated posture management processes.
• Partner with security domain teams to conduct root-cause analyses, identify systemic control gaps, and co-design sustainable remediation solutions.
• Drive end-to-end remediation of high-priority security issues with security domain teams, engineering, infrastructure, IT, and other stakeholder teams.
• Define clear remediation strategies, action plans, milestones, accountable owners, and target completion dates based on risk and business impact.
• Proactively identify and resolve remediation blockers, cross-team dependencies, ownership gaps, and competing priorities.
• Escalate overdue, blocked, or high-risk issues through governance channels when necessary.
• Validate remediation implementation and supporting evidence with security SMEs to ensure closure criteria are met.
• Develop security posture dashboards and reporting to provide visibility into remediation roadmaps, progress, milestones, and risk reduction.

Skills

Security remediation

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision-making

Risk assessment

Metrics & reporting

Communication

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Security Remediation Manager in San Jose to own the end-to-end remediation of security issues across incidents, vulnerability management, and other programs. You will partner with security domain teams, engineering, and IT to drive priority-driven remediation with clear actions, ownership, and timelines.

You will develop and maintain dashboards, metrics, and executive-level reporting to track progress, ensure timely closure, and demonstrate measurable risk reduction based on