Head of Security Ops & Engineering (Remote)

EDB; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CuraLinc Wellness program

Region-specific benefits

Job summary

EDB is seeking a seasoned security leader to oversee Security Operations and Security Engineering. You will report to the CISO and shape threat detection, incident response, and preventive controls that scale with the company’s growth, including cloud environments and post-acquisition integrations.

You will partner with Governance, IT, and Product to implement scalable security across pipelines, products, and third-party risk management, while expanding the program globally in a remote-first

Qualifications

• 5+ years of management experience leading security teams.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, detection, or security engineering.
• Experience scaling a security function through rapid growth.
• Ability to translate technical risk into business impact for executives, legal, customers, and your IT and Product counterparts.
• Comfort in a global, remote-first environment with flexible schedules and on-call responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead security operations and engineering to detect, respond, and prevent.
• Own incident response end-to-end, including escalation and legal coordination.
• Drive detection engineering, threat hunting, and the SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and cloud security platforms that support them.
• Define security strategy with preventive controls and least privilege across employees, contractors, and build systems.
• Build insider threat program in collaboration with HR, Legal, and IT.
• Automate security workflows with agent-based AI and scalable tooling.
• Integrate security for acquired companies and new environments into EDB’s standards.

Skills

Security leadership

Security operations

Incident response

Security engineering

Automation

Remote work

Tools

Python

Go

Job description

EDB is seeking a seasoned security leader to oversee Security Operations and Security Engineering. You will report to the CISO and shape threat detection, incident response, and preventive controls that scale with the company’s growth, including cloud environments and post-acquisition integrations.

You will partner with Governance, IT, and Product to implement scalable security across pipelines, products, and third-party risk management, while expanding the program globally in a remote-first